Re: Tru Type Fonts Question

[mike <mikpolniak@adelphia.net>]

	I set up true type font server according to the Debian
mini-HOWTO which adds support for true type with xfstt in
addition to xfs for regular fonts.
	With this set up you have two font servers on port
7100 and 7101.

On Sat, 7 Oct 2000 10:45:16 -0400, Christopher W. Aiken said:

> I know how to set up "xfstt" for true type fonts, but I
>  see that Debian 2.2 uses "xfs" as a default font server.
>  
>  How do I set up "xfs" to use my truetype fonts?  This is
>  what I did:
>  
>  1)  Installed the fttools package.
>  2)  Created /usr/share/fonts/truetype
>  3)  Copied my 1132 fonts to the above directory.
>  4)  Ran the "mkttfdir" utility.  Shouldn't there
>      be a "ttmkfdir" utility???  Where is it???
>  5)  Added "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" to the 
>      /etc/X11/XF86Config file.
>  6)  Re-started the "xfs" daemon.
>  7)  Re-started X
>  
>  That is when I got the error:
>  Fatal server error.
>  could not open default font 'fixed'
>  
>  What did I do wrong?  What am I missing?  Where is the
>  "ttmkfdir" utility?
>  
>  I know "xfstt" works but I would rather use "xfs" since it
>  is the default installed server. 

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