Thanks for explanation! Then I guess it is not necessary to put 'Load 
"type1"' in the xorg.conf file. Is this correct?


Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Federico Beffa wrote:
>> I have some problems with fonts in xfig, a drawing program. The program uses 
>> PostScript type1 fonts. However, no matter which font I select, or which 
>> font size I specify, I always get the same font with the message similar to 
>> "Can't find Helvetica-12 font, using 6x13 instead".
>>
>> Investigating a little bit I have noticed that in OpenSolaris 2009.06 there 
>> is no type1 module (/usr/X11/lib/modules/amd64/libtype1.so). Is it in a 
>> separate package? (I couldn't find it). Is it statically linked into X? 
>> (Nothing about type1 in the log file)
> 
> We have followed the Xorg upstream lead in replacing the old type1 module
> with use of the Type1 support in the freetype module instead.   (The
> separate Type1 code predates FreeType usage by many years - FreeType
> was originally added to provide TrueType support, but since it also
> has Type1 support and is already loaded into memory, it was decided
> to use it, instead of loading a second Type1 support module into
> memory.)
> 
> However, there is no Helvetica Type1 font delivered with OpenSolaris 2009.06.
> You can see the limited selection of Type1 fonts in the directory
> /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 - the fonts.dir & fonts.alias files will
> show what their names are for classic X applications.
> 

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