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Description
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In July 1997, the Solaris 2.6 Release Notes stated:
Support for F3 fonts and the TypeScaler rasterizer, SunSoft's
proprietary scalable font technology, is no longer available in
Solaris 2.6. SunSoft plans to enhance the font technology offering
in Solaris and has chosen to focus support only on the two
industry standard font formats:
* Type1
* TrueType
F3 fonts will be removed in releases of Solaris greater than 2.6.
End-of-Life specifies that in all releases of Solaris greater
than 2.6 during the next 5 years, the 57 F3 fonts and the
TypeScaler rasterizer may not necessarily ship with the Solaris
software but the 57 fonts have to be installed from an optional
package. The fonts may no longer be found in the End User
Cluster. Typescaler rasterizer support will continue to be part of
the window server for the next 5 years. If you want to continue to
use F3 fonts, you will need to install them from the optional
package.
2008 is now upon us. These fonts were promised for 5 years, users got 10.
Xorg cannot use them, Xsun has not used them for years. It's time to say goodbye.
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