On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, drek wrote: > > > Follow these dirctions, however if your useing the x font server like > > everyone else you'll be modifying /etc/X11/fs/config not XF86Config > > the fontpath in XF86Config should be "unix/:-1" > > > Well, I posted this because a newbie can make this work immediately. I haven't > had much luck with TT fonts. The output just isn't as nice as the PS versions. Being a newbie, and i believe useing 6.0 it's setup to use the xfs which is why i mentioned it. I'm obviously easy to please i never "fuss" with my fonts. > I'd rather use my PS fonts. I'm told XFree supports them directly, but I first > need to run mkfontdir to generate the fonts.alias and fonts.dir files. > > man mkfontdir makes no mention of PS, only some formats I haven't seen in > years. Pointing mkfontdir to my PS dirs generates a fonts.dir file with one > line containing a zero - it isn't seeing anything. These are the > *.afm/*.pfb/*.pfm files, it doesn't seem to work with them. > > The GIMP book by Hammel mentions a type1inst utility on an Australian > educational server, but I can never get into it, or find this program anywhere > else. > > I'd appreciate any help with the PS fonts. If you could point me at the offending fonts I will have a look. > Mark >
