Xft

Xft

Original author(s)	Keith Packard
Stable release	2.3.2 / June 5, 2012 (2012-06-05)
Type	Software library
License	Quasi-BSD license
Website	www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xft

For the U.S. Navy fighter aircraft, see Northrop XFT.

Xft, the X FreeType interface library, is a free computer program library written by Keith Packard. As of version 2.1, it is licensed under a quasi-BSD license.

It is designed to allow the FreeType 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.

References

• Keith Packard (2001-11-08). "The Xft Font Library: Architecture and Users Guide". Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on Linux Showcase & Conference. 5. 
• Roderick W. Smith. Linux in a Windows World. O'Reilly. p. 458. 

External links

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