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[ILUG] True Type Fonts in Xfree86 4.0 ?

[ILUG] True Type Fonts in Xfree86 4.0 ?

Paul Jakma paulj at itg.ie
Tue Nov 21 12:13:47 GMT 2000


ttfmkdir for TT fonts. :)

(grrr... why couldn't they have stuck to the mk* name convention, then
mk<tab><tab> would show it if you couldn't remember the name)

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, John P . Looney wrote:

>  How is it done ? I tryed:
>     adding "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf," to /etc/X11/fs/config,
>     mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf
>     copy /mnt/dos/c/windows/fonts/*.ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf
>     mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf
>     /etc/init.d/xfs restart
>     xset fp rehash
>
>  And it ... didn't work. the fonts.dir file in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf just has a '0' in it. Dodgy.
>
>  (BTW, this is urgent, need to get Arial working in the GIMP for some
> promo stuff for LinuxWorld ASAP)
>
> Kate
>
>





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