Re: TrueType fonts (again)
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 20:12, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:31:50PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 August 2003 04:43, Robert Storey wrote:
> > > I upgraded to Sid. Mozilla, which previously had bitmapped fonts, now
> > > has
> > > TrueType fonts - apt-get dist-upgrade" seems to have handled this
> > > automagically . That's great, but Konqueror, Kmail, and Sylpheed (among
> > > others) are still stuck in bitmap mode.
> >
> > Two things:
> >
> > Mozilla has its own font handling (via FreeType) while QT (and thus KDE) and
> > other X applications use the X font system.
>
> This isn't true anymore. Qt (and KDE) in Sid use fontconfig to get
> their fonts. Now you'll need to add a <dir>/foo/bar</dir> entry to
> /etc/fonts/local.conf telling fontconfig where to find your TrueType
> fonts.
>
> Just to complicate things, if you install "mozilla-xft" then Mozilla
> will use fontconfig, as well.
>
> > Depending on your setup, you'll
> > have to make sure that X knows about the fonts. If you don't see the fonts
> > with xfontsel, have a look at your /etc/XF86Config-4 and check if the font
> > path is set correctly. If so, you might have to recreate the font index in
> > the directory the TT fonts are installed.
>
> xfontsel will tell you if your fonts are available as "X core fonts",
> which GTK1.2, Qt2.2 and most older X apps use. "fc-list" will list
> fonts available to the fontconfig system (and apps using it).
>
> > If X knows about the fonts but any QT based application fails to see them,
> > edit the file ~/.qt/qtrc and set the variables useXft and enableXft to
> > 'false'. This seems to be a bug in QT.
>
> Not sure about this bit, but I've certainly had KDE3 and GNOME2 and
> Mozilla (with mozilla-xft) all have access to my fonts without editing
> anything aside from the fontconfig config file.
I got true type fonts working without touching the fontconfig config
file actually.
Added the directory under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ and put the truetype
fonts into it. I then built the fonts.dir using mkttfdir (fttools
package) and linked fonts.scale to it.
I then added the directory to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. (I think that
loading the freefont package is necessary).
All my x progs seem to recognize the truetype fonts without problem,
including fc-list.
I used my M$ fonts for this (regrettably the laptop came preinstalled
with XP home.
--
Micha Feigin
michf@math.tau.ac.il
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