On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 10:14:58AM -0500, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > Perhaps either xfs-xtt of mkttfdir expect font files to have a lowercase > file extention. Remeber .MP3 is different than .mp3, and .JPG is different > than .jpg, so it's not hard to imagine that this could be your problem.
damn, that might be it... do you happen to know of a way to lowercase letters in bash or some other way? i don't really want to mv THIS.TTF this.tff 215 times.... MS never ceases to inconvenience... > Bryan > > > > there is mkttfdir in fttools package. > > > >> Another question: Once I create fonts.dir, are there any other steps > >> to configure the font server to use the ttf fonts? > > > > i wnat to know this too, i installed xfs-xtt and used the above tool > > on a couple fonts i got from MS' gratis fonts page, and they showed up > > and were usable in netscape. but these were not enough fonts so i > > nabbed all the fonts from NT 4 and used the same utility which > > generated the fonts.dir file just fine it looks like, but now none of > > them are available for use in X, only the original X bitmapped fonts > >:( > > > > i cannot find any difference, except that this time i did not fix all > > the ugly MSDOS 8.3 filenames to lowercase but i don't see how that > > would matter. (its amazing even with a somewhat advanced filesystem > > like NTFS that you still end up with fscking 8.3 filenames when you > > archive files...) > > > > -- > > Ethan Benson > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > > /dev/null > -- Ethan Benson
