For the U.S. Navy fighter aircraft, see Northrop XFT.
Xft
Original author(s)
Keith Packard
Stable release
2.3.8[1]
/ 17 April 2023; 12 months ago (17 April 2023)
Repository
gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxft
Type
Software library
License
MIT/X license (The Open Group)[2]
Website
freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xft
Xft, the X FreeType interface library, is a free computer program library written by Keith Packard.[3][4] It uses the MIT/X license that The Open Group applied after the post X11R6.4 license restoration.[2]
It is designed to allow the FreeType font rasterizer to be used with the X Rendering Extension; it is generally employed to use FreeType's anti-aliased fonts with the X Window System. Xft also depends on fontconfig for access to the system fonts.
^"libXft 2.3.8".
^ ab"X/MIT Licenses". XFree86 4.0.1. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
^Keith Packard (2001-11-08). "The Xft Font Library: Architecture and Users Guide". Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on Linux Showcase & Conference. 5. USENIX Association: 22–22.
^Roderick W. Smith. Linux in a Windows World. O'Reilly. p. 458.
Xft, the X FreeType interface library, is a free computer program library written by Keith Packard. It uses the MIT/X license that The Open Group applied...
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later gtk/gdk/glib (optional – required for native theme support) pango/xft (optional – required for pdf printing, anti-aliased text and unicode font...
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supported only Portable Compiled Format (PCF) bitmap font until 2000 when Xft library was introduced to support modern stroke-based fonts like TrueType...
US 1953 Retired 2,294 North American F-107 US 1956 Prototype 3 Northrop XFT US 1933 Prototype 1 Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet US 1943 Prototype 2 Northrop...
gotten much faster, and client-side font rendering (particularly via the Xft library) has become the norm in contemporary software. So the choice between...
X11R6 release, which additionally included a number of updates to Xrender, Xft, Xcursor, fontconfig libraries, and other significant improvements. Fedora...
fonts are supported although a patch exists to enable TrueType fonts using Xft. dmenu is similar in function to application launchers such as Katapult or...
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/ 17 April 2023