Re: [ft] Windows Bitmap Fonts with Freetype2

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Hi, in the documentation is spoken about the feature that freetype
> can handle windows bitmap font files (*.fnt, *.fon). But if I add
> these to the specified font folder, they don't appear in something
> like gtk-chtheme or in the KDE font selectors, and also not in the
> xfontsel program when using the X11 freetype module.  Simply
> nowhere.  What do I have to do with the fonts that I get freetype to
> see it?  I compiled freetype with no special flags, I only set a
> --prefix and enabled the Bytecode Interpreter in ftoption.h

If you can display the Windows bitmap fonts with one of the demo
programs of FreeType (e.g., ftview), the our library works fine, and
the problem is beyond our scope -- you should contact a Gnome or KDE
forum for help.  Otherwise, please send me the offending font
privately.


    Werner