On Thu, 1 May 2003, Andre Costa wrote: >My system is currently configured to use RH xfs as a font server, and it >works ok. AFAIK 'freetype' X11 module would be an alternative to it. I >tried disabling xfs on /etc/X11/XF86Config, but fonts came up big and >ugly (I didn't go too deep in reconfiguring my stuff). So, my questions >are: > >1. what's the relationship between xfs and freetype? freetype is a font rasterization library. xfs is an X11 font server which uses freetype to rasterize fonts. >2. what's the relationship between freetype X11 module and Freetype >[http://freetype.sourceforge.net/] ? The freetype XFree86 module is the X server alternative to using xfs to handle truetype fonts. the freetype module is also linked to the freetype library. >3. What are the differences/advantages one offers compared to the other? They do different things, so it's like comparing apples to oranges. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
