[Xfontselector-list] Can your program (xfontselector) handle large amounts of fonts?

[Carl W. <cw...@ny...>]

(note I am reposting this to the mailing list for completeness)

I have added TrueType fonts in my linux box. I am using xfstt (ver1.1) to
share all the fonts to my other systems.

I tried using xfontsel but found it did not work correctly all the time.
Xfontsel behaves badly when picking fonts specific to the font foundry
(-2000p1-*...) It goes from first page of fonts to last page with no
intermediate pages. If I specify * for 'fndry' it works with no problems.
(note: 2000p1 is one set of my tt fonts)

So I wonder how well your program can handle large amounts of fonts. eg
4023 for me so far. I got these from two disk of 2000 fonts each of True
Type fonts sets.

I also tried your program and found that you need a '*' option for all
your option boxes. (set as default) I found that it would not pick any
fonts I had added using xfstt. also it would not pick the large fonts
(50,100,150 pt sizes)

Note: I did see that your program did indeed get a entire list of fonts.
Must be due to the xlsfonts (I think).

btw. here is an excerpt of my output of xlsfont and all are truetype:

 -2000p1-adam's apple 8-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
 -2000p1-affair 1-medium-i-normal-italic-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
 -2000p1-airliner 1-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
 -2000p1-airliner 2-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
 -2000p1-airliner 3-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
 -2000p1-alembic 1-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
 -2000p1-alien 1-medium-r-normal-plain-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
 -2000p1-all night 1-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

(2000p1 is a directory of 2000 tt fonts - ala xlstt, 'p' = proporitonal)
The xlsfonts list of mine is over 9000 lines long.


Addition:
I noticed that a lot of fonts use a '0' to indicate they are sizeable.
Most of the fixed fonts use the specific size they are created for.

Adding TrueType fonts is fairly easy with xfstt (font server), and I used
it to add the default fonts from Win9x as well.

Thnaks for your time.

Carl