Re: [ILUG] Re: xfs on redhat 6.x (ttf)

From: gary at domain netsoc.tcd.ie
Date: Thu 06 Jul 2000 - 16:08:28 IST


On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 02:18:11PM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote:
> = Justin Mason <jm at domain jmason.org> [20000706 1157]:
> > I think you need to do some kind of mkfontdir-style indexing command
> > before they're usable. RTFM or RTFW with a search for "redhat 6.2 ttf
> > fonts howto" or similar,
>
> if anybody has built such indexes (fonts.dir, fonts.scale etc)
> successfully on debian woody i'd like to hear from them because i'm
> having trouble doing it properly.

Try getting the package fttools from contrib - mkttfdir comes with that.
Then
mkttfdir [directory-name ...]
(not tested!)
And the generic (non-RH) description of using an X TrueType server is at
http://www.io.com/~kazushi/xtt/

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