On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 04:46:32PM +0100, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
If you mean the original bitmap oriented fonts of X11, so they are
several reasons to avoid the usage of this kinds of fonts.
The may issue with this fonts is, that they are not scaleable to any
size you want.
So what - perhaps the application doesn't need to scale the fonts to
any size? Perhaps the application doesn't need to use anything other
than 'fixed'?
Just because Xft fonts are better does not mean core fonts are
useless.
Rich.
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