I ran ttmkfdir and sent the output to fonts.dir. I just hope fonts.dir is where it is supposed to go. There was no fonts.scale file created by ttmkfdir. Is this bad?
After making the adjustments in the fonttastic configuration file, the font server started up OK and I restarted the X server. The font server gave no errors when it started up, either. However, I haven't a clue how to integrate these new fonts into KDE, or my browsers (which is the point of the exercise). Any insight appreciated, Joel On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 09:19:33AM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: > OK. I will try the ttmkfdir first. > Now, if I run ttmkfdir -h, I get this as output: > > This Program is (C) Joerg Pommnitz, 1998 > Usage: ttmkfdir [-d dir] [-o filename] [-f foundry] [-m #] > -d scan directory dir for TrueType files (def. is current directory) > -o write output to file named filename (def. stdout) > -f use foundry for unknown font vendors (def. misc) > -m max # of missing characters per encoding (def. 5) > -c use less strict completeness tests for encoding tables > -p use panose information > > The output of ttmkfdir is a bunch of font specifications: > arialn.ttf -monotype-Arial Narrow-medium-r-condensed--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-ru > How am I supposed to use this output? Doesn't there have to be a fontmap so > the fonts can be found by a program? > > What is panose information? > > Thanks, > Joel > > > On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 09:04:00PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:33:19 -0400 > > Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I want to install some truetype fonts. > > > > > > I have XFree86 Version 4.0.1 I have an old version of KDE. Version 2 > > > or something. This version of KDE came with Caldera 2.4. I cannot tell > > > for > > > sure because the about KDE menu doesn't give the version. > > > > > > I have some true type fonts already installed, I think, made available > > > through fontfs. But, these fonts don't seem to include anything > > > useful, like ariel. > > > > > > I have a bunch of fonts from a windows installation I want to use. > > > Is there a way to just convert these to a form that I can reference > > > with fontfs? > > > > > > > I don't know enough about the older systems and fontfs, but basically > > all you need to do is: > > > > 1. copy all the fonts to a directory > > 2. run ttmkfdir in that directory > > 3. update your XF86Config > > 4. do whatever black magic with fontfs??? > > 5. On newer software, you need to run fc-cache > > 6. Restart your Xserver > > 7. Update any other apps that need special handling. > > > > If you don't have a Windows distro handy, you can follow the > > instructions at the following site to get the core tt fonts from M$ > > (supposedly this is legal). The instructions are extremely RH centric, > > but a little tinkering will make this work for any distro. > > > > http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ > > > > Much luck. > > -- > > Collins Richey - Denver Area > > if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the > > worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
