Re: [XFree86] Old-style font rendering

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Ross Vandegrift <ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 	I upgraded from Slackware Gnu/Linux 8 to version 9 today.  This
> included an upgrade to XFree86 4.3.0 with fontconfig, Xft, and
> anti-aliasing all configured.
>
> 	This is all well and good... but I want my old font
> configuration back.  Before, I could just make my XF86Config look like:
>
> 	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/100dpi"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/75dpi"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/misc"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/Type1", etc
>
> And the core renderer would always use the 100dpi fonts, unless I asked
> for a font that was only available as some other type.  The above
> XF86Config snippet doesn't do the trick, so I tried making
> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf have this section:
>
> 	<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/100dpi</dir>
> 	<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/75dpi</dir>
> 	<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/fonts</dir>
>
> But this doesn't do the trick.  Can anyone give me some pointers on how
> to replicate the old behavior with Xft?

Get the latest versions of fontconfig and freetype.  They have support
for gzipped pcf fonts.  You'll still have trouble with some fonts.
Fontconfig has no way (that I've been able to find) to specify all the
different "fixed" fonts.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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