> 1. Is there a way to know at run-time whether or not an X-server will > actually be able to honor the rotated font request?
Not officially. However, you may have a look at the font property ``RASTERIZER_NAME''. If it says ``FreeType'', ``X Consortium Type 1 Rasterizer'' or ``X Consortium Speedo Rasterizer'', it will probably work. If it's something else, all bets are off. > 2. Is there any documentation/standard for the use of rotated fonts, > e.g., the name of the rotated font above is mostly a mystery between > the []? The XLFD spec, version 1.5, Section 4. http://www.x.org/docs/XLFD/xlfd.pdf > 3. I suspect the issue might be a discrepancy between the installed > fonts on the two X servers. No, it's more probably a discrepancy between the font backends being used. I suspect that Hummingbird uses a rasteriser called the ``X Consortium Bit Scaler'', which has been disabled in X.Org. Core X11 fonts are deprecated in X.Org. I strongly recommend that you switch to Xft, which doesn't have any of these issues. Juliusz _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg