xorg Digest, Vol 7, Issue 78

Thu Sep 23 13:06:06 PDT 2004

On Thursday 23 September 2004 12:00 pm, xorg-request at freedesktop.org wrote:
> > Will be be still possible to use TTF fonts (one or two fonts actually)
> > without Xft?
>
> I'm not sure for this one. Applications have no problem to display Truetype
> fonts, but they run from machines with full-featured X11 installations.

Safeway's shopping cart used only ms tt core web fonts via xtt but to start up 
I recall it  required the cursor and one console default in misc. Only one 
application, gtk embedded mozilla widget but it worked and looked terrific.