On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 22:16 +0100, David Turner wrote: > I'd like to know the following: > > - is this feature useful for fontconfig / libXft ? Or should we yank > it from > FreeType ?
It's not terribly useful for fontconfig or libXft, where it is useful is in converting sfnt back into BDF files in case you want to take a font and use it with old non-TTF supporting X servers. > - I don't understand completely the difference between atoms and > non-property > strings. Aren't these the same things ? Why distinguish them then ? All I care about is regenerating a matching BDF file; I'd like to see whatever it takes to preserve every aspect of the original font files. -keith
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