Mention free Truetype font servers (Xfstt and xfsft).

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Juergen Lock 1999-11-25 23:14:23 +00:00 committed by Alexandre Julliard
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@ -41,7 +41,10 @@ What to do with TrueType fonts? There are several commercial
font tools that can convert them to the Type1 format but the
quality of the resulting fonts is far from stellar. The other
way to use them is to get a font server capable of rendering
TrueType (Caldera has one).
TrueType (Caldera has one, there also is the free Xfstt in
Linux/X11/fonts on sunsite and mirrors, if you're on FreeBSD you
can use the port in /usr/ports/x11-servers/Xfstt. And there is
xfsft which uses the freetype library, see documentation/ttfserver).
However, there is a possibility of the native TrueType support
via FreeType renderer in the future (hint, hint :-)