RE: True Type Fonts and Linux

["Atul Chitnis" <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> What I meant was there used to be another TTF font server that was
> non-free.  IIRC, Debian went with xfstt even when it was less stable than
> the non-free one.  Am unable to locate the name of the non-free ttf font
> server.

That's correct. We faced a similar issue when we put together the March PCQ
CD - we shipped xfstt with it (based on our earlier discussion in this list
about StarOffice and bad fonts and Arun's coming here to give a
presentation).

xfstt was chosen despite its slight instability (at that time) because it
didn't have any strings attached.

I too can't remember the name of the other TT font server, but this just
goes to show that closed source with weird licenses leads to "forgettable"
software ;-)

Atul

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