[Fsf-india] Integrating TTF fonts to GNU/Linux - HOWTO
Gopal.V
gopalv82@yahoo.com
Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:12:34 +0530
If memory serves me right, CK Raju wrote:
> Created a new directory 'TrueType' under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts.
>
> Step 2 :
> Added the pathname to the configuration file (XF86Config) wherever it
> is
> (under /etc or /)
Please be more specific. An entry into the /etc/XF86Config-4 in
the "Files" section
FontPath "unix/:-1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
>
> Step 3 :
> Copied all ttf fonts taken from Windows fonts directory to the newly
> created
> TrueType directory under GNU/Linux.
Not all of them please, coz when X encounters a corrupted font,
it will start crashing.....
>
> Step 4 :
> (Here's where most of the documentation on them went wrong.)
> Under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType,
> # ttmkfdir -m 100 -o fonts.scale
Hey !. You're putting the TTF into X directly. The right way to do
this is to put the TTF files into the XFS ie /etc/X11/fs/config file
or /etc/X11/xfs/config file. So after ttmkfdir what you gotta do is
do a /etc/init.d/xfs restart and you have the new fonts.
But anyway the method C.K Raju explained will work on XFree86-4
but for those poor souls still stuck with XFree86-3, debian has a
TrueType Fontserver called XFSTT which can be used to render the fonts.
Gopal.V
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