[Xquartz-dev] The 2.1.0 package and Apple System Fonts
Ben Byer
bbyer at apple.com
Mon Dec 3 06:00:44 PST 2007
I noticed this, too, and haven't the foggiest idea why. :(
On Dec 2, 2007, at 4:32 PM, Merle Reinhart wrote:
> One thing I was noticing when comparing the "xset q" output between
> Tiger and Leopard is on Leopard, at the bottom under 'Font cache:'
> is says 'Server does not have the FontCache Extension'. It
> apparently does on Tiger as there is an active cache.
>
> As far as fontconfig goes, there is a lot of documentation in /usr/
> X11/share/doc/fontconfig.
>
> I played around with defining a local ~/.fonts.conf like the docs
> described and pointed at some extra fonts in another directory. fc-
> cache properly sees it, but the Xserver doesn't. Perhaps the lack
> of the FontCache Extension is related?
>
> Merle
>
>
>
> On Dec 2, 2007, at 6:53 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 2, 2007, at 14:17, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
>>> Disclaimers: I have no idea how X11 interacts with fontconfig. My
>>> only
>>> practical experience with font servers was back in the days of X
>>> terminals, and that was not in this century. (The point being that
>>> the X terminal, having no local file system, could only get its
>>> fonts
>>> from a font server. The font servers were fragile beasts that would
>>> curl up and die if you looked at them crosswise, and we were glad to
>>> get rid of them when the last X terminal left the building.)
>>
>> Ok, I found a good description for you from http://www.freshports.org/x11-fonts/libXft/
>> :
>>
>> The current version of Xft provides a client-side font API for X
>> applications. It uses Fontconfig to select fonts and the X protocol
>> for
>> rendering them. When available, Xft uses the Render extension to
>> accelerate
>> text drawing. When Render is not available, Xft uses the core
>> protocol to draw
>> client-side glyphs. This provides completely compatible support of
>> client-side
>> fonts for all X servers.
>>
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Ben Byer
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