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"Helvetica TrueType/FreeType anyone?"

I need Helvetica in either the TT or FT libraries so it will work with Gdkxft. FreeType is preferred, although I think TT will work too.

Cheers.

Turbo, if there's one thing I've learned from my sporadic visits to this forum, it is that you are most definitely cunning. But I'm still totally uninterested in why you needed these fonts ;)

S'ok, I've cunningly aliased it to Arial instead (much nicer font). Thanks.

Only one I could find on a trawl round was on this page:

http://www.pca.ne.jp/fff/newfont/search.cgi ?start=120&group=New-H

As usual, remove the space in the url, which I had to add to avoid words over 60 chars.

Gah, OK, cheers.

Sorry, I haven't got it.

Heh, luke knows all that.

Gdkxft is really amazingly cool. Follow the instructions, and it rocks. You lose some fonts though, anything that isn't TrueType. Which leads me on to...

I need Helvetica in TrueType. Anyone got it? Juts look in c:\windows\fonts\ , cheers.

doc, you what????? lol

Can someone sum this up using 'English' please???

On the other hand, I'm as utterly out of depth as you were.

Insomnia - let me clarify ...

Gdkxft transparently adds anti-aliased font support to gtk+-1.2. Once you have installed it, you can run any (well, nearly any) existing gtk+ binary and see anti-aliased fonts in the gtk widgets. You don't need to recompile gtk+ or your applications.

OK now?

If anyone understood what you just said, they're doing better than you.