hi

thanks for answering,

Ilya Konstantinov wrote:

> Hi Erez,
>
> About your first problem - xfs serves Type1 and bitmap fonts too, if
> you configure it to the Type1 / bitmap directories paths.
> Have you checked you don't have other Type1 and bitmap iso8859-8 fonts
> installed?

not 8859-8 ones ! ( i ran ttmkfdir on each directory i have, the total was 10
8859-8 fonts )

>
>
> > btw: how do I stop xfstt from changing the fonts names to -ttf-*-*-*....
>
> As I remember, one of the servers found fonts itself (ignoring
> fonts.dir and using 'ttf' as the foundry), while the other
> (xfs-xtt?) actually used fonts.dir (including the foundries).
>

you seem to be right as i can install xfstt without installing the rpm that
has ttmkfdir in t.

>
> Anyhow, why do you need a font server while XF4 already supports
> TrueType fonts natively? Guys, are there any performance advantages to
> this?
>

trying to do mkfontdir on a ttf directory gives 0 fonts ! i guess my xfs-4.0.3
does not support ttf

>
> --
> Best regards,
> Ilya Konstantinov

so may be that the xfstt is more advanced than the ttmkfdir utility and
support more fonts ...

regards
erez.


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