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It seems that I can use the old fonts like Snap with AA… Whats the deal?

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It seems that I can use the old fonts like Snap with AA… Whats the deal?

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As soon as you activate AA with Fluxbox, it relies on Freetype2 to render the characters. If you don’t use AA, X11s native font rendering can be used. As FT2 does not support all the formats that X11 supports, the choice of fonts for Fluxbox becomes limited. As of this writing, FT2 supports the following formats: • TrueType files (.ttf) and collections (.ttc) • Type 1 font files both in ASCII (.pfa) or binary (.pfb) format • Type 1 Multiple Master fonts • Type 1 CID-keyed fonts • OpenType/CFF (.otf) fonts • CFF/Type 2 fonts • Adobe CEF fonts (.cef) • Windows FNT/FON bitmap fonts Freetype 1, on the other hand, does only support TrueType fonts, although support for GX and OTF fonts can be enabled by using another library. Details can be found on the Freetype homepage.