Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts
ttmkfdir in the ttf dir :) Add the path to your fonts section in
XF86Config, freetype to the modules section (you already did both, it
seems) & you're there.
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Paul Sims (wulfie@wulfric7.co.uk)
SpireLUG - the Chesterfield Linux User Group
www.spirelug.org.uk
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On 4 Nov 2000, John S. J. Anderson wrote:
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> Greetings --
>
> Did the XFree86 upgrade last night. Wasn't too bad; if I hadn't
> mis-remembered the video card in this box, I think it would have been
> seamless. As it was, I had to do some reading and playing around to
> get /etc/X11/XF86Config set up the right way.
>
> Once I got it working, however, I was quite impressed. It's noticeably
> faster than XFree 3.3.6 on window movement and screen redraws, even
> with the old 4 MB Trident card I've got.
>
> The one thing I had trouble figuring out was my fonts. I've got a slew
> of various TrueType fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype. I was using
> xfstt to serve them via port 7101, but from what I can gather, the
> Right Way under the XFree86 4 is to use one of the TrueType
> backends. I had
>
> Load "freetype"
>
> in my XF86Config, and I added the directory as a FontPath, but I
> still didn't have access to those TrueType fonts.
>
> Reading a bit between the lines in the docu, I figured out that I
> needed to do a 'mkfontdir' in my TrueType directory -- but 'mkfontdir'
> didn't seem to want to work.
>
> Turning to Google, I found
> <URL:http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/newbie/2000-June/000017.html>,
> which lead me to ttmkfdir, which I downloaded via
> <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttmkfdir/>
>
> I already had the freetype2 and freetype2-dev packages installed, so
> getting ttmkfdir to build was not too hard -- I had to add
> '-I/usr/include/freetype' to the CFLAGS line in the Makefile, and then
> 'make' built the binary.
>
> I then ran 'ttmkfdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ > fonts.scale', which
> built the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files.
>
> However, upon restarting X, I still can't see any of my TrueType
> fonts.
>
> Does anybody out there have a clue to spare on this issue?
>
> TIA,
> john.
>
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