Re: xfs-xtt

[Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 10:14:58AM -0500, Bryan Scaringe wrote:
> Perhaps either xfs-xtt of mkttfdir expect font files to have a lowercase
> file extention.  Remeber .MP3 is different than .mp3, and .JPG is different
> than .jpg, so it's not hard to imagine that this could be your problem.

damn, that might be it... do you happen to know of a way to lowercase
letters in bash or some other way?  i don't really want to mv THIS.TTF
this.tff 215 times....

MS never ceases to inconvenience...

> Bryan
> 
> 
> > 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...) 
> > 
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> > Ethan Benson
> > 
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Ethan Benson