[oclug] xfree 4.0

[Ste]

Actually, in my experience, ttmkfdir may think some of your ttfonts are
"broken" for some reason or another. The only way to get those fonts to
work the first time, without a hitch, is to use xfstt. 
RedHat 5.2 had a warning about running ttmkfdir in its preconfigured
truetype directory, because some fonts are considered "broken" by ttmkfdir.

Ste

On 2001.02.24 17:25:21 -0500 Seung-woo Nam wrote:
> Hi:
> Actually in RedHat, it's quite easy to install truetype fonts if you have
> XFree
> 86 version 4.
> 
> 1. Make a directory in /usr/share/fonts ( I just made 'trutype' dir on my
> machine)
> 2. Copy TTF fonts to the directory ( in my case I just copied all TTF
> fonts from
> my Windows partition)
> 3. Go into the directory and run 'ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale' and
> 'mkfontdir'
> 4. chkfontpath --add dir ( dir is the name of the directory you created
> and it
> should be absolute path)
> 5. xset fp rehash
> 
> This solution only applies to RedHat, I believe. I recommend you to read
> Font
> HOWTO for more information.
> On my Debian, I just use xfstt and haven't bothered to check if there's
> other
> way. ( there must be because XFree 86 version 4 is supposed to support
> truetype
> fonts)
> 
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