Hi Everyone, There were a few things I was doing wrong. I was not clearing the config.cache (tnx Dave), magicpoint was not looking in /usr/local/lib (thanks Marty) and more importantly libttf.a was in fact in the FreeType1 distribution not the FreeType2 distribution (thanks Jeff). I now have FreeType1 compiled and installed and ./configure in magicpoint finds libttf.a and compiles for TrueType fonts. I restarted te xfs font server and X windows. I hate to say it but they are still bitty compared to LaTeX fonts in PostScript :-( Thanks all. Mike -- ------------------------------------------------------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Ph: 9514 1724 Fx: 9514 1628 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~mikel ------------------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug