xfstt lets you use TrueType fonts with the X windows system. TrueType fonts look much nicer than most other popular scalable fonts at low resolution. In addition, Windows (3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, and NT) uses TrueType fonts, so there are lots of TrueType fonts easily available.

xfsttos2 is a port of xfstt to OS/2. It lets you use TrueType fonts with the X windows system in OS/2, including XFree86 for OS/2.

If you want to use TrueType fonts with OS/2 Presentation Manager and the Workplace Shell, please use the FreeType/2 package, which is also an excellent TrueType package. You can, of course, use xfsttos2 with TrueType/2, and share fonts among xfsttos2, TrueType/2, and Win-OS/2 (or Windows).

xfsttos2 is available for download here. It is an entirely opensource free software package licensed under the GNU Library General Public License. Feel free to post it to various other OS/2 archive and mirror sites. Feel free to make any changes or improvements--but be sure to let me know about them so I can incorporate them into the xfsttos2 package!

To install xfsttos2, unzip it with the -d (or the /dir parameter in PKZip 2.50 and greater) in the root of the drive where XFree86 for OS/2 is installed. Follow the instructions in \XFree86\doc\xfstt\README.OS2 next. There is also an FAQ in that directory which has general information about xfstt.

Merry Christmas,
Joshua Rodd
jerodd@usa.net
1998 Dec 22