Thanks for your help guys / solved partially? Re: ARRGH defoma-hints also not working :-/

[Josef Oswald <oswald@chello.at>]

Well thanks for _all_ suggestions :-) 

OK I found _part_ of the solution somewhere else I had to to install 

# apt-get install libft-perl   libttf2

after that I had to do this:

defoma-hints --no-question truetype  /path/to/fonts/*.ttf >/etc/defoma/hints/your.hints 
--no-question this turns off any questions defoma-hints would ask.

defoma-font register-all /etc/defoma/hints/your.hints 

most likely I will need to start defoma but I am not sure, so after the
next reboot I will see if this solved the whole font-mess here. 

And no I don't reboot because I want to check defoma, my pc is in my
sleeping-room and too noisy to leave it running while sleeping :-) 

Who know if this helps another _poor_ soul to add new fonts to defoma,
most hits on gooogle were just cries for help :-/ 

Josef Oswald <oswald@chello.at> writes:

> Well this happens with testing but read on
>
> Josef Oswald <oswald@chello.at> writes:
>
>> I install msttcorefonts and I use defoma.  I have not installed any 
>> additional fonts other then those which came with the msttcorefonts
>> package. I could add more from my Windows98 directory 
>>
>> now in xfontsel in the "microsoft" section I see only comic san;
>> georgia; trebuchet; verdana; webdings, are those the only ones that come
>> with the msttcorefonts package? 
>>
>> Now if I do install others from  Win98, how do I tell defoma that new
>> fonts are to be included? 
>
> Now I copied more fonts into /usr/share/fonts/MS-truetype
>
> "man defoma-hints" told me that it would a create a new hints-file, 
>
> but 
> root@PURE-JOY-II:# defoma-hints MS-truetype.hints
> /usr/share/fonts/MS-truetype/ *.ttf > MS-truetype.hints
>
> gives out this error:
>
> defoma-hints Can't locate FreeType.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at (eval 3) line 2.
> \n
>
> So thats the end of trying to generate a new hintsfile, 
>
> now the relevant file in /usr/share/defoma/libhint-truetype.pl starts
> with: 
>
> my @ENCODING;
> my @ID_LANG;
> my %ID_Region;
>
> BEGIN {
>     eval ("use FreeType");
>     exitfunc(255, "libft-perl is needed.") if ($@ ne '');
>
>     @ENCODING = qw(Symbol Unicode ShiftJIS GB2312 BIG5 WanSung Johab);
>
>     @ID_LANG =
>
> I thought that changing "FreeType" to "TrueType" would solve the problem,
> but it did not. 
>


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