Re: my font of death
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Jonathan Kaye wrote on 05.04.2005 11:36:
| I now had to get the font to be recognised as an xlsfont. I followed the
| Debian mini-howto http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/TT-Debian-3.html
| setting up the xfs server, and then setting up the xfstt server to add
| truetype support. I install the font as per instructions and it shows up
| nicely with $xlsfonts. It even shows up using xfontsel and all appears
| normal. The problem is that any time after that any application that
| even has the font available will crash the system as described in the
| first paragraph. As I said, the font works fine as long as it is not an
| xls font - the catch 22 is that an xls font is what it has to be.
Hi Jonathan,
I have no experience with your particular problem but wanted to point
out something different. U don't need to use a xfs-xtt or similar
truetype capable server with XFree86 v4.x anymore. The cited HOWTO is
slightly aged, consider the follwing link instead [1].
This is not to discredit the HOWTO from tldp, I've started from it as
well but there's been quite some changes in XFree86 since v3.x
partitculary considering fonts, anti-aliasing and auto-hinting etc.
The link to the alias-generating script (fuzzy small fonts on the web)
is broken, use the perl version [2] instead. The
font-deuglification-HOWTO of which this link is the appendix might be of
interest to you as well.
Basically just create a folder where you put your Truetype fonts (e.g.
/usr/local/share/fonts/ttfonts/), put a corresponding line into your
XF86Config-4
FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/ttfonts"
and your set. For more in-depth info see the links.
[1] http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/xfree4_tt.html
[2] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/FDU/appendixb.html
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