Xft Explained

Xft
Author:	Keith Packard
Genre:	Software library
License:	MIT/X license (The Open Group)^[1]

Xft, the X FreeType interface library, is a free computer program library written by Keith Packard.^{[2] [3]} It uses the MIT/X license that The Open Group applied after the post X11R6.4 license restoration.^[1]

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.

External links

• Xft homepage
• A tutorial by the author
• Fontconfig homepage

Notes and References

1. Web site: X/MIT Licenses . XFree86 4.0.1 . April 2, 2020.
2. The Xft Font Library: Architecture and Users Guide . Keith Packard . Keith Packard . 2001-11-08 . Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference on Linux Showcase & Conference . 5 . USENIX Association. 22.
3. Book: Linux in a Windows World . Roderick W. Smith . O'Reilly . 458.