(mgp-users 00585) Re: Xft support query and a port to the iPAQ H3xxx.

[Yoshifumi Nishida <nishida@csl.sony.co.jp>]

Hi, 

From: jg@pa.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
Subject: (mgp-users 00584) Xft support query and a port to the iPAQ H3xxx.
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 11:19:00 +0900
Message-ID: <>

>> I have Magic Point running on the iPAQ H3xxx handheld running Linux.
>> I'll be packaging it up as an ipkg for the Familiar distribution sometime
>> soon.

Great news. :) I just got iPAQ yesterday. I'm using linux on it.

>> Is anyone planning to add Xft support?  (For those of you not tracking
>> X development, Xft is a library that provides access to the new
>> Render extension (which allows implementation of antialiased text
>> using Freetype 2); it will use existing X fonts if outline fonts are
>> not available or Render not present in your X server.

Hmm.. mgp supports freetype1 and I'm planning to add freetype2 support to mgp. 
Isn't it a solution?

Cheers,
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Yoshifumi Nishida <nishida@csl.sony.co.jp>
Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.