Re: How to verify TrueType fonts are working?
I have read many howto's and they are conflicting. One says tt fonts are built-in, whatever that means, another says they come from the xfs server. One says use ttmkfdir, another says mkttfdir works fine. Currently there is a line referring to port 7100 before the list of font paths in my XF86Config-4 file. I also have xfs running. I also have the tt font path added to the list and I copied the tt fonts from my W95 widnows/font directory, made them all lower case and ran ttmkfdir to create a fonts.dir file. Another howto says to create a fonts.scale file and sort it. One doc says to use the binary in the tar file for ttmkfdir, another says to compile the source with certain options. I probably have a mixture now that won't work. My next attempt is to comment out the port 7100 line and stop xfs. I think this is the "built-in" way. If that don't work, I guess I'll create the fonts.scale file using a newly compiled ttmkfdir.
--- Matthew Dalton <matthewd@research.canon.com.au>
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>Rick Loga wrote:
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>> I did go to netscape preferences/fonts and did NOT see my TT fonts listed, e.g. arial. Is there another way to verify they are working or not? Or, since I do not see them in netscape, do I assume they are NOT working?
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>I'd say they aren't working.
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>You could try the xfontsel program though. If you cant see your fonts
>there, then they're definitely not working.
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>There's a howto for TT fonts... have you read that?
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