Alexander Gutfraind hat gesagt: // Alexander Gutfraind wrote:
> A am a newbie. Not completely, but I have the following newbie
> problem: In netscape 4.06 and any other netscape I had on my Debian
> system, I have a _very_ limited selection of very poor fonts. How do
> I install/configure new fonts?
Just install the sharefont and freefont packages.
> I heard one can even import windows fonts. how?
This is in fact not really a newbie problem, but advanced system
management ;)
The solution is:
Install and configure xfstt. You should take the version out of slink
xfstt 0.9.9-6 TrueType Font Server for X11
because it is better documented.
Then make a link to your Windows fonts with a command like:
$ ln -s /dos/windows/fonts/ /usr/share/fonts/truetype/winfonts
^ ^
path to your dos-fonts this is for version 0.9.9-6
and (re)start xfstt. You could also copy the fonts to
/usr/share/fonts/truetype but why waste the disk space?
Some pitfalls to avoid:
* Debian's xfstt runs on port 7101 not the default 7100.
What this means is:
After installation you should put a line reading
FontPath "unix/:7101"
in the "Files" Section" of /etc/X11/XF86Config.
* I have found that the pid-file /var/run/xfstt.pid made errors during
installation. If xfstt doesn't start try removing this file (it will
appear again when xfstt really starts)
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