Re: tlug: Draft of June 13 TLUG General Meeting Announcement

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 27 May 1998, Manuel Chakravarty wrote:

> It worked = it is fast (in contrast to being dead slow
> 	    without VFlib), but the fonts are very ugly, as
> 	    they are not really made for being scaled in
> 	    this way. 
> 
> I guess (from `/etc/vfontcap'), it is possible to use the M$
> TrueType fonts that come with Windoze.
> 

glad it worked!  I believe that you can use TT fonts from Windows, yes.
I'll ask.

> Does anybody know whether there are any descent *free* fonts
> available for VFlib?
> 
> Scott, one point I was wondering about in
> `VFlib-2.22pl9-2tlj.i386.rpm' is, why is there no link
> 
>   libVFlib.so.2 -> libVFlib.so.2.22.9
> 
> in `/usr/jp/lib'?

That would be because it was probably overlooked, and since I didn't
package that one myself... I'll forward this on to the guy in charge of
making the japanese packages.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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