Re: True Type fonts

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

"John S. J. Anderson" wrote:
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> Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> writes:
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> > I guess you can remove it, I did remove true type font server
> > (forgot which one I had) and I have the true type fonts.
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> So, what font lines do you have in XF86Config?
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> john.

Section "Files"
        # erik: no font server
        # FontPath      "unix/:7100"                    # local font
server
        # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on
these
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection

here's what I have in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType:

jojda:~>ls /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
LCD.ttf      cm5500.ttf   courbd.ttf   quics___.ttf  timesbi.ttf  
wingding.ttf
arial.ttf    comic.ttf    courbi.ttf   symbol.ttf    timesi.ttf
arialbd.ttf  comicbd.ttf  couri.ttf    tahoma.ttf    verdana.ttf
arialbi.ttf  coprgtb.ttf  fonts.dir    tahomabd.ttf  verdanab.ttf
ariali.ttf   coprgtl.ttf  impact.ttf   times.ttf     verdanai.ttf
ariblk.ttf   cour.ttf     marlett.ttf  timesbd.ttf   verdanaz.ttf
jojda:~>

I ran mkttfdir and here's /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/fonts.dir:

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LCD.ttf -misc-LCD-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
arial.ttf -Monotype-Arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
arialbd.ttf -Monotype-Arial-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
arialbi.ttf -Monotype-Arial-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
ariali.ttf -Monotype-Arial-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
ariblk.ttf -Monotype-Arial Black-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
comic.ttf -misc-Comic Sans MS-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
comicbd.ttf -Microsoft-Comic Sans
MS-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
cour.ttf -Monotype-Courier New-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
courbd.ttf -Monotype-Courier New-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
courbi.ttf -Monotype-Courier New-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
couri.ttf -Monotype-Courier New-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
impact.ttf -Monotype-Impact-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
tahoma.ttf -misc-Tahoma-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
tahomabd.ttf -misc-Tahoma-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
times.ttf -Monotype-Times New
Roman-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
timesbd.ttf -Monotype-Times New
Roman-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
timesbi.ttf -Monotype-Times New
Roman-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
timesi.ttf -Monotype-Times New
Roman-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
verdana.ttf -Microsoft-Verdana-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
verdanab.ttf -misc-Verdana-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
verdanai.ttf -misc-Verdana-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
verdanaz.ttf -misc-Verdana-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

  the mkttfdir is in:

jojda:~>dpkg -S mkttfdir
fttools: /usr/bin/mkttfdir
fttools: /usr/share/man/man1/mkttfdir.1.gz

  what's confusing is that there is also package named mkttfdir:

jojda:~>dpkg -l mkttfdir
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
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Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un  mkttfdir       <none>         (no description available)

  not sure why...

  there's also ttmkfdir, it's not packaged but some say it's better than
mkttfdir (search list archives for ttmkfdir).

	erik