Details about the font support in this version of XFree86 can be found in the README.fonts document.
This version of XFree86 comes with two TrueType backends, known as
`xfsft' (the "freetype"
module) and `X-TrueType' (the
"xtt"
module). Both of these backends are based on the FreeType
library.
Support for CID-keyed fonts is included in this version of XFree86. The CID-keyed font format was designed by Adobe Systems for fonts with large character sets. The CID-keyed font support in XFree86 was donated by SGI. See the LICENSE document for a copy of the CID Font Code Public License.
A new ``fontenc'' layer has been added to allow the scalable font backends to use a common method of font re-encoding. This re-encoding makes it possible to uses fonts in encodings other than their their native encoding. This layer is used by the Type1 and Speedo backends and the `xfsft' version of the TrueType backend. The `X-TrueType' version of the TrueType backend uses a different re-encoding method based on loadable encoding modules.
The glyph metrics array, which all the X clients using a particular font have access to, is now placed in shared memory, so as to reduce redundant memory consumption. For non-local clients, the glyph metrics array is trasmitted in a compressed format.
What is included:
-u8
option).
"freetype"
module) and the X-TrueType
(the "xtt"
module) TrueType font backends support
Unicode-encoded fonts.
Known problems: