Re: [Devel] Using Windows bitmap-fonts (.fon) in Linux

[Ole André Vadla Ravnås]

On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 12:26, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> >>>>> "Ole" == Ole André Vadla Ravnås <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Ole> Hi I noticed that freetype has support for the .fon bitmap font
> Ole> format used by MS Windows. Is there any way of utilizing these
> Ole> fonts on a Linux system with X11?
> 
> Yes.  You'd need to use ft2 to render them, so the options are Xft for
> client side fonts and the ft2 backend for server side fonts.
> 
> You probably already have Xft installed (probably version 1), but for
> the ft2 server-side backend you will need to patch and recompile X.

Great! Hi Owen, Limbo doesn't happen to provide XFree with Xft v2? :)

Thanks
Ole André