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@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Xprint is now deprecated. + +For a WYSIWYG-style printing API giving equivalence between what appears in an +X windows and what gets printed on paper or to pdf or postscript, you may want +to consider using libcairo, the Cairo graphics library +(http://cairographics.org/) + +Font support for Xprint was removed from libXfont 1.4. To build Xprt under +libXfont 1.4 (or later) you will need to use built-in fonts + ./configure --enable-builtin-fonts +(By default built-in fonts are not used, equivalent to --disable-builtin-fonts). + +However built-in fonts may cause a segfault in client programs, which has not +been debugged since Xprint is deprecated. For an operational Xprt you may want +to built against libXfont 1.3. |