If you want TrueType fonts for Netscape, you do need to use V.4 xfs font server. Other applications don't need the font server.
--- David B.Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >To quote Anton Emmerfors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ># While it is true that ttmkfdir identifies more fonts and encodings ># than mkttfdir, I have not been able to make xfs (4.0.2 from testing) ># work with its fonts.dir files. The only difference I can find is that ># ttmkfdir does not capitalize foudries but that should not make a ># difference, should it? > >While I don't think that that should make a difference, I'd like to >point out that it Word For Me(tm) :) I'm running Sid, XFree86 4.0.2, and >I'm using the built-in font renderer. > >If you're using the 'xfs' font server, a seperate executable, then >that'd be your problem. It doesn't do truetype fonts. 'xfs-xtt' does, >however, and you can use that if you insist on having a seperate font >server. XFree86 4.0.x has native support for truetype fonts, though. >Just add: > >Load "freetype" > >into your "Modules" section of XF86Config-4. Then add a "FontPath" to >your truetype fonts in the "Files" secton. > >David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay > Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.) > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________________ Want a new web-based email account ? ---> http://www.firstlinux.net