This is a mail that Pablo sent a month ago. >From: Pablo Saratxaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Cooker] X problem >Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 11:09:24 +0100 > >Kaixo! > >On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 11:26:13PM -0500, Gordon Cooper wrote: > > > It already had ttf support? > >yes. > > > How do you set it up? > >1. the fonts must be visible by Linux (that is the partition mounted etc) >2. create a fonts.dir file (as root: 'cd /the/directory/ ; ttmkfdir > >fonts.dir') >3. add the directory to the font server config file (as root: > 'chkfontpath -q -a /the/directory/ && killall -USR1 xfs' >4. if you are on X11, you need to refresh the fontlist: 'xset fp rehash' > > >PS: to avoid possible problems; try to have all fonts ending in *.ttf and >not >in *.TTF; for that, do a step 1a like this: > >cd /the/directory >for i in *.TTF ; do > mv $i $i.tmp > mv $i.tmp `basename $i | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'` >done > > > Netscape has screwy fonts... > >Then you can use those fonts in all your X11 programs. > >-- >Ki ça vos våye bén, >Pablo Saratxaga > >http://www.ping.be/~pin19314/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0x8F0E4975 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
