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@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@ -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, the -X Font Server (xfs), and some font utilities (bdftopcf for instance), -but should not be used by normal X11 clients. X11 clients access fonts -via either the new API's in libXft, or the legacy API's in libX11. +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. libXfont supports a number of compression and font formats, and the configure script takes various options to enable or disable them: |