On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 21:26, Vidiot wrote:
> >Vidiot wrote:
> >> Does anyone have a good listing for tahoma and tahomabd in which to place
> >> into the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/fonts.dir file?
> >
> >cd into the webfonts directory, and type "mkfontdir". That will create
> >the fonts.dir file for you.
>
> I see something, I think. If I understand this correctly, mkfontdir doesn't
> handle scalable fonts and relies upon the fonts.scale file. So, what the
> Hell is used to make the fonts.scale file?
>
> Which came first, the chicken or the egg. This is what this problem is
> beginning to look like.
>
> MB
Procedure I used to add tt fonts to my box. Had a hard time getting
those fonts to show up.
I removed all spaces and underscores, dashes etc from the font names so
they look like thisfontname.ttf I don't know if it was the spaces or
what but xfs did not seem to work until I did this.
Then copied them to /usr/share/fonts/microsoft or what ever directory
you want to use. Then edit /etc/X11/fs/config
# note: some fonts already installed conflict with windows true type
font so I comment out some lines till I find the problem and ended up
with the following...
# format of config
# where to look for fonts
#
catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1,
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1,
/usr/share/fonts/microsoft/
Get rid of any fonts.scale and fonts.dir
xfs server will recreate those with the new fonts.
cd /usr/share/fonts/microsoft/
rm fonts.*
[localhost@root]$ /etc/init.d/xfs restart
You may want to tail -f /var/log/messages to make sure xfs restarted
correctly and you didn't miss any font filenames with spaces or whatever
caused the problem.
$ startx &
# from terminal run
$ xfontsel &
hum, I have over 6000 ttfonts available to X programs like gnome and
gimp! However, some don't play with certain apps especially the version
of Mozilla that comes with RedHat. So I download the Netscape
PreRelease version 7.0 (i think it was). It has ttfont support built in.
Although I do not know if Galeon has support for ttfonts, I did not have
any problem reading or viewing the default fonts in Galeon like I did
redhats version of mozilla.
If any of this is incorrect, please correct! Some of my ttfonts came
from w2k. It had all sorts of files there that did not end in .TTF or
.ttf I deleted those other files since I did not know what they were
for. Anyone know?
jay
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