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+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.