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- From: thomas@mathematik.uni-Bremen.de (Thomas Eberhardt)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: compression of pcf fonts?
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- Date: 23 Aug 92 06:05:19 GMT
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- scowen@wfpc3.la.asu.edu (Paul A. Scowen) writes:
-
- >In the R4 world I used to have all my snf fonts compressed. I have tried this
- >with the pcf fonts in R5 and found that mkfontdir craps out. Is this true,
-
- I've added support for compressed bitmap fonts to X11R5 by integrating some
- stuff I found in mit/server/os/decompress.c into the font library. One
- can find the necessary patches on export.lcs.mit.edu in
- contrib/compressed-fonts-patches.Z
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