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| author | Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com> | 2019-09-16 10:47:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com> | 2019-09-16 10:47:27 -0400 |
| commit | 13ebb8f32f767c596b1b8bd16b90703a8135f20b (patch) | |
| tree | 92d4ea5f8305435ad14c0d2a1aefa2c3361fa601 | |
| parent | ed8b8e9fe544ec51ab1b1dfaea6fced35470ad6c (diff) | |
README: Remove mention of libXfont 1.5
xfs was ported to libXfont2 in release 1.2, and bdftopcf 1.1 includes a
copy of enough of the old libXfont1 code to not need an external
libXfont at all.
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 13 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -3,15 +3,10 @@ libXfont - X font handling library for server & utilities libXfont provides the core of the legacy X11 font system, handling the index files (fonts.dir, fonts.alias, fonts.scale), the various font file formats, -and rasterizing them. It is used by the X servers, and will eventually be -used by the X Font Server (xfs), but should not be used by normal X11 clients. -X11 clients access fonts via either the new APIs in libXft, or the legacy -APIs in libX11. - -This version of libXfont is not compatible with xfs, or with the legacy -bdftopcf utility; these packages require libXfont 1.5, not libXfont 2.0 -or later. The two versions can be installed in parallel, and eventually -the need for 1.5 will go away. We apologize for the inconvenience. +and rasterizing them. It is used by the X display servers (Xorg, Xvfb, etc.) +and the X Font Server (xfs), but should not be used by normal X11 clients. X11 +clients access fonts via either the new APIs in libXft, or the legacy APIs in +libX11. libXfont supports a number of compression and font formats, and the configure script takes various options to enable or disable them: |