> I've found that xfstt is the easiest to set up, and it rendered the fonts
> a lot nicer than other similar packages. Having said that, it's been about
> 18 months since I've bothered setting tt fonts up on a unix box.
If you're using RedHat 6.0 or later (and presumably RedHat derived distros),
the X font server (xfs) installed and used by default is already TrueType
enabled with FreeType. Using that may save you setting up to use two font
servers.
man ttmkfdir should tell you more; but having just tried it, there isn't a man
page on my system.
Oh well. Short version for RH file layout:
mkdir /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ttf
copy all .ttf files into above
cd /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ttf
/usr/sbin/ttmkfdir > fonts.dir
cp fonts.dir fonts.scale
add /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ttf to catalogue = in /etc/X11/fs/config
quit X, restart xfs, restart X (you could always reboot if you prefer :-))
run up xfontsel and admire all your new screen fonts
Setting up Ghostscript to use said ttf fonts I'll leave for someone else, 'cos
I've never done it.
BTW, last time I checked the FreeType pages they were trying to resolve some
patent (boo! hiss!) issues with Apple. Anybody know the status of that? Has
FreeType had to be pulled from post-6.0 RH?
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