Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 02:24:01PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> Marc Wilson wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> >
> > It really is just that simple.  I had zero luck getting xfstt to cooperate
> > with XF4, and had all sorts of weird font-isms until I disabled it.  Aterm
> > would display hash instead of line-drawing characters, rxvt wouldn't even
> > START, Eterm would start, but not display the menus properly, etc.
> 
> I've added this in the font path and xfstt seems to work right now:
> 
> Section "Files"
>         FontPath        "tcp/127.0.0.1:7101"   # xfstt
>         FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
>         FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> EndSection
> 
> Anyway, i'm still little confused about true type font with XF4. Without xfstt
> Netscape show in the preference font requester the same true type font label as
> "monotype".

Well, the new xfs with X4 does support TrueType fonts.  Use 'mkttfdir'
in the fttools package to make a fonts.dir file in
/usr/share/fonts/truetype.  Add the truetype path to the config file for
xfs and restart it.  xfstt then becomes redundant.


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