Re: xfs-xtt

[Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 04:05:24AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Under potato, I've installed xfs-xtt.
> 
> Are there any stock means to create fonts.dir in a directory with ttf
> fonts? The documentation that comes with xfs-xtt says nothing of this.

it probably does, in japenese ;-)

> I tried getting mkttfdir, which is part of perlftlib-1.2.tar.gz,
> available from http://www.io.com/~kazushi/xtt/#perlftlib, but it won't
> compile... and mkttfdir.pl doesn't work, saying mkttfdir.pl doesn't
> exist. ;^(

there is mkttfdir in fttools package.  

> Another question: Once I create fonts.dir, are there any other steps
> to configure the font server to use the ttf fonts?

i wnat to know this too, i installed xfs-xtt and used the above tool
on a couple fonts i got from MS' gratis fonts page, and they showed up
and were usable in netscape.  but these were not enough fonts so i
nabbed all the fonts from NT 4 and used the same utility which
generated the fonts.dir file just fine it looks like, but now none of
them are available for use in X, only the original X bitmapped fonts
:(

i cannot find any difference, except that this time i did not fix all
the ugly MSDOS 8.3 filenames to lowercase but i don't see how that
would matter. (its amazing even with a somewhat advanced filesystem
like NTFS that you still end up with fscking 8.3 filenames when you
archive files...) 

-- 
Ethan Benson