Re: Accessing fonts actuallu listed

[Paul Thomas <paul tmsl demon co uk>]

On 24/11/2002 14:58 Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> I was about to blame this on the XFLD/Freetype font name schism, but I
> see
> Redhat compiled it without freetype support.  Which means that only the
> standard Postscript fonts are really usable, as those can be printed.
x> The
> fonts that should work are Courier, Helvetica, Times and Symbol.  Some
> Postscript printers also understand Avantgarde, Bookman,
> NewCenturySchoolbook, Palatino, and Zapfchancery.  Other fonts cannot be
> printed without Freetype, as the X font system doesn't give us access to
> the font files.
Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu>>
> In the CVS version, we dropped XFLD totally and switched to Freetype for
> X,
> which does at the moment show some of the same problems you mention, but
> I'm about to fix that.
> 
> Fonts for most things can be set by double-clicking their icons and
> setting
> defaults there.
-- 
Paul Thomas
Thomas Micro Systems Limited
http://www.tmsl.demon.co.uk