Re: true-type and wine

[Douglas Orchard <duglas@twcny.rr.com>]

> >>  do> Has anybody written a Howto or tutorial on setting up the truetype

> > In addition to wine and my windoze games I need truetype in Abiword and The Gimp
> 

> 1. Install xfs and xfstt using apt-get.
	Done
> 
> 2. Configure xfs:
> a. Modify /etc/X11/fs/config if nessary and restart the xfs server 
> ('/etc/init.d/xfs restart').
	Added the truetype path to the end of the catalogue
	did xfs restart
> 
> b. Verify that xfs is working ('falsfonts -server unix/:7100').
	did this
	falsfonts: command not found ... is this a problem????	
> 
> 3. Modify /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to include the non-ttf fonts on port 7100:
> 
> Section "Files"
> 	FontPath	"unix/:7100"	# local font server
> #	FontPath	"unix/:7110"	# 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/Type1"
> #	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
> #	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> #	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> EndSection
> 
> 4. Verify that xfs fonts are visible:
> Restart X and run the command 'xlsfonts'.
> 
> 5. Copy your ttf font files to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ and set 
> permissions to 0444 (user read, group read, other read).
> 
> 6. Configure xfstt:
> a. Restart the xfstt ttf font server ('/etc/init.d/xfstt force-reload').
	 $ /etc/init.d/xfstt force-reload
	Reloading X True Type Font Server configuration...Stopping X TrueType Font Server: xfstt not 		running.
	xfstt: "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" does not exist! ..... (It does and is 0444)
	xfstt: sync failed
	Starting X TrueType Font Server: xfstt.
> 
> b. Modify /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to include the ttf fonts on port 7101:
> 
> Section "Files"
> 	FontPath	"unix/:7101"            # ttf fonts preferred
> 	FontPath	"unix/:7100"		# local font server
> #	FontPath	"unix/:7110"		# 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/Type1"
> #	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
> #	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> #	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> #	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
> EndSection
	Did this
> 
> 6. Verify that the xfstt fonts are visible:
> Restart X and run the command 'xlsfonts | grep ttf'.
	did this .... got no fonts

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Douglas Orchard
duglas@twcny.rr.com
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