Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] font handling

2012-03-13 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Tuesday 13 March 2012 17:03:47 IvankoB for-mse wrote: > So how do you get a "end-user friendly" list of font names and > translate/map those to the *.ttf files that FreeType requires? Thats the job of FontConfig. Martin

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] font handling

2012-03-13 Thread IvankoB for-mse
So how do you get a "end-user friendly" list of font names and translate/map those to the *.ttf files that FreeType requires? == For TTF fonts, it's highly recommended to use XFS-TT font server. And to copy M$ TTF-fonts to "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/microsoft/" where they'll be taken a

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] font handling

2012-03-13 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Tuesday 13 March 2012 12:19:13 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi Martin, > > In fpGUI I use Xft and FontConfig to do the text drawing. This has the > benefit that a font name like 'Liberation Sans-10' can be used to set > the correct font. As far as I understand, MSEgui uses FreeType2 > directly, bu

[MSEide-MSEgui-talk] font handling

2012-03-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi Martin, In fpGUI I use Xft and FontConfig to do the text drawing. This has the benefit that a font name like 'Liberation Sans-10' can be used to set the correct font. As far as I understand, MSEgui uses FreeType2 directly, but as far as I can see, FreeType requires the actual font file name (eg