Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-27 Thread cga2000
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 04:26:11AM EDT, Jochen Schulz wrote: cga2000: [..] Well .. I'm not sure where anyone ever got the idea that fonts should look blurred. I mean if I buy a book from amazon and I get a blurred copy.. I send it back right away. For stuff that you glance at it may

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-27 Thread cga2000
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 05:45:57AM EDT, Russell L. Harris wrote: Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wish there was a good font book available. I've done quite a bit of reading on fonts (and tweaking) but everything I have run into does not really do much to clarify the issues.

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
cga2000: http://www.geocities.com/cga/pic00/ One that uses verdana for everything is in the moz.png file. That looks quite ok, but for me it's too small to be read easily. And if fonts are larger, I definitely prefer AA. What I like about verdana 8pt is that it ends up looking a lot

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wish there was a good font book available. I've done quite a bit of reading on fonts (and tweaking) but everything I have run into does not really do much to clarify the issues. Not sure there are many people who really understand them either. I

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Russell L. Harris: Have you seen the font books of Donald Knuth, author of TeX? They are (1) Computer Modern Typefaces, (2) The METAFONTbook, and (3) METAFONT: The Program. No, but I am using Computer Modern this very moment as I am writing my diploma thesis (which I have to hand in on

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-24 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 05:45:33AM EDT, Jochen Schulz wrote: [..] In my opinion, Bitstream on Linux beats them all. Only Tahoma on Windows (not shown) comes close for small font sizes. Verdana on Linux is quite ok, too. But it is too wide (and screen space is precious on my notebook) and it

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-22 Thread Dimitar Vukman
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:46:02 +0200 T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you mean that you realized that you've given the wrong font name? Then give it the right one, like this: aterm -fn -microsoft-comic sans ms-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Aloha there. I'm not 100% sure of where lies

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
cga2000: On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 05:35:53PM EDT, Jochen Schulz wrote: Agreed. Although one should note that the MS fonts look horrible when used with fontconfig's anti-aliasing and hinting. This would probably look a lot better on Windows. I use verdana both in gnu/linux and win98

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-22 Thread T
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:11:03 +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: I'm not 100% sure of where lies my problem, but I'd appreciate if you give me the output of $ xlsfonts | grep comic on your machine. I still get: __ aterm: can't load font

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-22 Thread Dimitar Vukman
The font list is same as your, just that I don't have the unknown-comicsansms. As I said, the above rxvt command works for me. Have you give it a try? Here's mine, notice the difference. I wonder how come it's not the same. $ xlsfonts | grep comic -microsoft-comic sans

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-22 Thread T
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:18:57 +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: Here's mine, notice the difference. I wonder how come it's not the same. The only different is the last 2 parts, which depend on locale. Here are mine: en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8 zh_CN

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dimitar Vukman: I'd like to use M$ Comic Sans font in aterm. I am aware that you solved this already and I don't mean to offend you, but I have to say: this is an absolutely disgusting idea. Really, I mean it. Oh my $deity. I can't tell how much I would hate this. But wait, I can:

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-21 Thread Dimitar Vukman
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:06:07 +0200 Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am aware that you solved this already and I don't mean to offend you, but I have to say: this is an absolutely disgusting idea. Really, I mean it. Oh my $deity. I can't tell how much I would hate this. But wait, I

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-21 Thread T
[please quote appropriately next time] On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:32:21 +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: --- $ aterm -fn -microsoft-comic sans ms-medium-r-normal-*-0-0-0-0-*-0-*-1 aterm: can't load font -microsoft-comic sans

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-21 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 08:06:07AM EDT, Jochen Schulz wrote: Dimitar Vukman: I'd like to use M$ Comic Sans font in aterm. I am aware that you solved this already and I don't mean to offend you, but I have to say: this is an absolutely disgusting idea. Really, I mean it. Oh my $deity. I

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
cga2000: On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 08:06:07AM EDT, Jochen Schulz wrote: can: http://wasteland.homelinux.net/~jrschulz/gfx/terminal-comic.png How do you do that? I was surprised myself that this worked. Earlier attempts of using a proportional font in a(nother) terminal emulator looked even

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-21 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:56:48PM EDT, Jochen Schulz wrote: cga2000: On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 08:06:07AM EDT, Jochen Schulz wrote: can: http://wasteland.homelinux.net/~jrschulz/gfx/terminal-comic.png How do you do that? I was surprised myself that this worked. Earlier attempts of

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
cga2000: I mean .. it's nice to impress your friends and stuff .. but even in your improved version .. I wouldn't want to use that on a daily basis. Agreed. Although one should note that the MS fonts look horrible when used with fontconfig's anti-aliasing and hinting. This would probably look

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-21 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 05:35:53PM EDT, Jochen Schulz wrote: cga2000: I mean .. it's nice to impress your friends and stuff .. but even in your improved version .. I wouldn't want to use that on a daily basis. Agreed. Although one should note that the MS fonts look horrible when used

terminal true type fonts

2006-08-20 Thread Dimitar Vukman
Aloha! I'd like to use M$ Comic Sans font in aterm. I've tried a few things that came to my mind, but none worked. I've tried adding path to xfs's confing, getting xfstt up and running. I guess that xfontsel or gtkfontsel should pick up all fonts avaliable and since I haven't seen M$ fonts

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-20 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:16:40AM EDT, Dimitar Vukman wrote: Aloha! I'd like to use M$ Comic Sans font in aterm. I've tried a few things that came to my mind, but none worked. I've tried adding path to xfs's confing, getting xfstt up and running. I guess that xfontsel or gtkfontsel

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-20 Thread Dimitar Vukman
Aloha! $ aterm -fn -microsoft-comic sans ms-medium-r-normal-*-0-0-0-0-*-0-*-1 .. works here .. Not here :) [09:56 PM Sun Aug [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ aterm -fn -microsoft-comic sans ms-medium-r-normal-*-0-0-0-0-*-0-*-1 aterm: can't load font -microsoft-comic sans

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-20 Thread T
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:49:57 +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: Aren't they listed when you issue a: $ xlsfonts | grep comic no How did you install them? I followed: http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/font_howto/Font-HOWTO/html/Font-HOWTO/x169.html Did you install the

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-20 Thread Dimitar Vukman
Did you restart X after installing the msttcorefonts package? Thanks! You are genious! :)) I always did /etc/init.d/xfs restart and haven't even thought of reseting X. Muchos gracias :) Aloha and Namaste! -- Infinite Love Is The Only Truth, Everything Else Is Illusion!

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-20 Thread Dimitar Vukman
Huh, perhaps not yet. fontsel finds it, but it doesent seem to be there. --- $ aterm -fn -microsoft-comic sans ms-medium-r-normal-*-0-0-0-0-*-0-*-1 aterm: can't load font -microsoft-comic sans

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-20 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 04:49:57PM EDT, Dimitar Vukman wrote: Aloha! $ aterm -fn -microsoft-comic sans ms-medium-r-normal-*-0-0-0-0-*-0-*-1 .. works here .. Not here :) [09:56 PM Sun Aug [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ aterm -fn -microsoft-comic sans ms-medium-r-normal-*-0-0-0-0-*-0-*-1

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-20 Thread Dimitar Vukman
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:19:02 -0400 cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I _think_ all I had to was an apt-get install msttcorefonts .. bounced my X session .. done. Did you do that or did you copy the font over from a Windows box? Yeah I did that long time ago. However fontsel did not pick

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-20 Thread T
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:21:19 +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: Huh, perhaps not yet. fontsel finds it, but it doesent seem to be there. --- $ aterm -fn -microsoft-comic sans ms-medium-r-normal-*-0-0-0-0-*-0-*-1 aterm: can't

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-20 Thread Dimitar Vukman
what's the output of the following, after restarting X? $ xlsfonts | grep comic $ xlsfonts | grep comic -microsoft-comic sans ms-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0 -microsoft-comic sans ms-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0 -microsoft-comic sans ms-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0

Re: True-type fonts from Windows

2004-01-20 Thread Warren Dodge
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 12:25 pm, Ryan Mackay wrote: # apt-get install msttcorefonts I found this didnt install xfstt, just placed the fonts in the right place and did what it had to do to make them usable. If it isnt workin for ya try $ apt-get install xfstt $ /etc/init.d/xfstt

True-type fonts from Windows

2004-01-20 Thread David Baron
Can these be installed in Debian? Open Office works decently in Hebrew in Windows, but not in Linux. I have 1.10 on both and it should be the same code. It might be the availability of fonts. Dagesh, has its problems through Wine, but can access the Windows TTF fonts and print them under CUPS so

Re: True-type fonts from Windows

2004-01-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
David Baron wrote: Can these be installed in Debian? Open Office works decently in Hebrew in Windows, but not in Linux. I have 1.10 on both and it should be the same code. It might be the availability of fonts. Dagesh, has its problems through Wine, but can access the Windows TTF fonts and print

Re: True-type fonts from Windows

2004-01-20 Thread Ryan Mackay
David Baron wrote: # apt-get install msttcorefonts I found this didnt install xfstt, just placed the fonts in the right place and did what it had to do to make them usable. If it isnt workin for ya try $ apt-get install xfstt $ /etc/init.d/xfstt restart And add this line in the Files

Re: True-type fonts from Windows

2004-01-20 Thread M . Kirchhoff
# apt-get install msttcorefonts -Roberto Make sure you have `contrib` in your sources.list file. --M. Kirchhoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: True-type fonts from Windows

2004-01-20 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Roberto Sanchez wrote: David Baron wrote: Can these be installed in Debian? Open Office works decently in Hebrew in Windows, but not in Linux. I have 1.10 on both and it should be the same code. It might be the availability of fonts. Dagesh, has its problems through Wine, but can access

Re: True-type fonts from Windows

2004-01-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:47:28PM +0200, David Baron wrote: Can these be installed in Debian? I think they can be readily used in KDE thanks to the font manager in kcontrol. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'`

Re: True-type fonts from Windows

2004-01-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:15:22PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: # apt-get install msttcorefonts Not sure he was referring just to the core web fonts. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and

Re: RES: problemas com true type fonts

2003-05-09 Thread Ivo Santos Cavalcante Carneiro
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Hm, documentacão acho que está toda em Inglês. Você pode tentar usar o dfontmgr (como superusuário), que sendo gráfico talvez lhe seja mais fácil. Leandro, onde acho esse 'dfontmgr'? Procurei aqui, mas sem sucesso. O 'defoma' já está

Re: RES: problemas com true type fonts

2003-05-09 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Fri, 09 May 2003 01:40:29 -0300, Ivo Santos Cavalcante Carneiro wrote: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Hm, documentacão acho que está toda em Inglês. Você pode tentar usar o dfontmgr (como superusuário), que sendo gráfico talvez lhe seja mais fácil. Leandro,

Re: RES: problemas com true type fonts

2003-05-09 Thread Rodrigo M. Araujo
Em Sex, 2003-05-09 às 07:25, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra escreveu: On Fri, 09 May 2003 01:40:29 -0300, Ivo Santos Cavalcante Carneiro wrote: Leandro, onde acho esse 'dfontmgr'? Procurei aqui, mas sem sucesso. O 'defoma' já está instalado. Vale ressaltar: uso o Woody.

Re: RES: problemas com true type fonts

2003-05-09 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Fri, 09 May 2003 12:30:19 -0300, Rodrigo M. Araujo wrote: Nao precisa disso tudo o dfontmgr ja esta na stable sim: stable dfontmgr 0.11.0 (38.9k) GUI frontend for defoma, DEbian FOnt MAnager. Legal, qual o comando (e opcões) que dá essa saída? -- _ Leandro

Re: RES: problemas com true type fonts

2003-05-08 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Wed, 07 May 2003 20:38:13 -0300, Rodrigo M. Araujo wrote: Em Ter, 2003-05-06 às 05:28, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra escreveu: Por isso mesmo é que existe o defoma... Ja vi que o defoma existe para isso e tentei durante algum tempo achara alguma documentacao boa

Re: RES: problemas com true type fonts

2003-05-08 Thread Rodrigo M. Araujo
Em Qui, 2003-05-08 às 06:22, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra escreveu: On Wed, 07 May 2003 20:38:13 -0300, Rodrigo M. Araujo wrote: Hm, documentacão acho que está toda em Inglês. Você pode tentar usar o dfontmgr (como superusuário), que sendo gráfico talvez lhe seja mais fácil.

Re: RES: problemas com true type fonts

2003-05-07 Thread Rodrigo M. Araujo
Em Ter, 2003-05-06 às 05:28, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra escreveu: On Tue, 06 May 2003 01:34:37 -0300, Ivo Santos Cavalcante Carneiro wrote: Por isso mesmo é que existe o defoma... Ja vi que o defoma existe para isso e tentei durante algum tempo achara alguma

Re: RES: problemas com true type fonts

2003-05-06 Thread Ivo Santos Cavalcante Carneiro
Gilberto Garcia Jr. wrote: Alterei a linha na seção Files do seu /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, claudio. nao sei o que acontece.. nenhum aplicativo reconheceu as fontes. vou fazer o teste com uma fonte apenas e ver o que acontece. depois reporto para vcs. mas em teoria fazendo isso deveria funcionar

Re: RES: problemas com true type fonts

2003-05-06 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Tue, 06 May 2003 01:34:37 -0300, Ivo Santos Cavalcante Carneiro wrote: Depende, nem todos os aplicativos usam o X para gerenciar fontes TrueType. O Mozilla, por exemplo, faz tudo sozinho. Que aplicativos não estão reconhecendo as fontes? Por isso mesmo é que existe o defoma... --

Re: RES: problemas com true type fonts

2003-05-06 Thread caio ferreira
On Mon, 5 May 2003 13:08:39 -0300 Gilberto Garcia Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alterei a linha na seção Files do seu /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, claudio. nao sei o que acontece.. nenhum aplicativo reconheceu as fontes. vou fazer o teste com uma fonte apenas e ver o que acontece. depois reporto

problemas com true type fonts

2003-05-05 Thread Gilberto Garcia Jr.
Pessoal, peguei o how to do lpd, segui a risca, mas nao consigo fazer o x e os aplicativos entenderem as fontes. Assim, instalei o xfs, e dei os comandos para criar os arquivos fonts.scale e fonts.dir. mas nao sei como tornar as fontes disponiveis para o x. alguem poderia dar uma luz? obrigado

Re: problemas com true type fonts

2003-05-05 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Mon, 05 May 2003 10:17:18 -0300, Gilberto Garcia Jr. wrote: Pessoal, peguei o how to do lpd, segui a risca, mas nao consigo fazer o x e os aplicativos entenderem as fontes. Assim, instalei o xfs, e dei os comandos para criar os arquivos fonts.scale e fonts.dir. mas nao sei como tornar as

Re: problemas com true type fonts

2003-05-05 Thread Cláudio Max
Em Mon, 5 May 2003 10:17:18 -0300 Gilberto Garcia Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] disse que: Pessoal, peguei o how to do lpd, segui a risca, mas nao consigo fazer o x e os aplicativos entenderem as fontes. Assim, instalei o xfs, e dei os comandos para criar os arquivos fonts.scale e fonts.dir. mas nao

RES: problemas com true type fonts

2003-05-05 Thread Gilberto Garcia Jr.
original- De: Cláudio Max [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: segunda-feira, 5 de maio de 2003 12:09 Para: debian-user-portuguese@lists.debian.org Assunto: Re: problemas com true type fonts Em Mon, 5 May 2003 10:17:18 -0300 Gilberto Garcia Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] disse que: Pessoal, peguei o

Re: RES: problemas com true type fonts

2003-05-05 Thread José de Paula
Em Mon, May 05, 2003 at 01:08:39PM -0300, Gilberto Garcia Jr. escreveu: Alterei a linha na seção Files do seu /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, claudio. nao sei o que acontece.. nenhum aplicativo reconheceu as fontes. vou fazer o teste com uma fonte apenas e ver o que acontece. depois reporto para

Re: Mozilla (true type fonts)

2003-02-19 Thread Luiz Fernando Andrade
E porque o Konqueror por exemplo não precisa de todas estas configurações para apresentar as paginas que fogem do padrão de uma maneira pelo menos razoavel??? Existe algum outro tipo de browser tipo o Konqueror? Qual o browser mais usado no WindowMaker ???

Re: Mozilla (true type fonts)

2003-02-19 Thread Luis Alberto Garcia Cipriano
Está nos registros oficiais que em Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:18:30 -0300 Luiz Fernando Andrade [EMAIL PROTECTED] manifestou-se nestas palavras: E porque o Konqueror por exemplo não precisa de todas estas configurações para apresentar as paginas que fogem do padrão de uma maneira pelo menos

Mozilla (true type fonts)

2003-02-18 Thread Luiz Fernando Andrade
Como configuro o Mozilla p/ ele apresentar as fontes parecidas com o Internet Explorer (urgh!!!) ??? já instalei o servidor de fontes true type... e copiei as fontes que tinha no Windows 2000 pra o diretório onde as fontes ficam no Linux (me esqueci agora onde é!!!) Na confiruração do Mozilla eu

Re: Mozilla (true type fonts)

2003-02-18 Thread Marcio de Araujo Benedito
* Luiz Fernando Andrade ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Como configuro o Mozilla p/ ele apresentar as fontes parecidas com o Internet Explorer (urgh!!!) ??? já instalei o servidor de fontes true type... e copiei as fontes que tinha no Windows 2000 pra o diretório onde as fontes ficam no Linux (me

Re: Mozilla (true type fonts)

2003-02-18 Thread Luis Alberto Garcia Cipriano
Está nos registros oficiais que em Tue, 18 Feb 2003 17:05:58 -0300 Marcio de Araujo Benedito [EMAIL PROTECTED] manifestou-se nestas palavras: * Luiz Fernando Andrade ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Como configuro o Mozilla p/ ele apresentar as fontes parecidas com o Internet Explorer (urgh!!!)

Printing True Type Fonts

2003-02-05 Thread Ayman Haidar
Hello, I have been trying to solve this problem for few days.. I cannot print anything with True Type Fonts. I have cups installed with gs and gs-esp. I have tried to add true type fonts to Fontmap in gs using xfstt, with no avail. I even copied the Fontmap from a mandrake partition

Re: true type fonts

2002-11-09 Thread Michael Waters
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 23:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to setup truetype fonts on my box. I did find good doc when I searched on google and did follow the instructions to the dot. save for the simple fact that /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype is a link to

Re: true type fonts

2002-11-09 Thread Michael Waters
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 03:22 -0500, Michael Waters wrote: Hi, are you referring to this: http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/xfree4_tt.html ? There's a lot of stuff there about adding your own fonts and stuff but all I did was install msttcorefonts and xfs. Then add a couple lines to

Re: true type fonts

2002-11-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 03:22:36AM -0500, Michael Waters wrote: On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 23:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to setup truetype fonts on my box. I did find good doc when I searched on google and did follow the instructions to the dot. save for the simple

Re: true type fonts

2002-11-09 Thread
Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: You don't need xfs (unless you know you need it). Just add the appropriate FontPath lines to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and restart X. You'll need to the mkttfdir or whatever bits, but it should then work fine. You can use 'xlsfonts' to list all available fonts,

true type fonts

2002-11-08 Thread lostbear
Hi folks, I have been trying to setup truetype fonts on my box. I did find good doc when I searched on google and did follow the instructions to the dot. save for the simple fact that /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype is a link to /usr/share/fints/ttfonts I am not sure as to how to verify if

Re: True Type fonts, anti-aliasing

2002-09-21 Thread Michael Kristensen
* A R [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-21 13:21:52]: cd /us/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType ln -s /usr/share/fonts/truetype Well, I tried to do it and discover that I don't have TrueType directory, which tells me that I probably didn't install them. Can some one point what packages need to be

Re: true type fonts won't work...

2002-06-17 Thread Ronald Verlaan
On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Bob Proulx wrote: I had tried to install them manually and had random troubles. Then I found the easiest way to make those work is to add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file to get non-US and non-free. deb http://misery.proulx.com:/non-US unstable/non-US

Re: true type fonts won't work...

2002-06-17 Thread Ronald Verlaan
On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Stephan Hachinger wrote: Hi Stephan, Another very easy way is installing xfstt and placing your truetype fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype, adding unix:/7100 (besides unix:/7101 for xfs, I think) to the FontPath in XF86Config-4. Then install ttmkfdir and tetex-bin and a

Re: true type fonts won't work...

2002-06-17 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: Ronald Verlaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephan Hachinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 9:20 AM Subject: Re: true type fonts won't work... On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Stephan Hachinger wrote: Hi Stephan

true type fonts won't work...

2002-06-16 Thread Ronald Verlaan
Hi all, I am trying to make anti-aliasing work for the true type fonts I downloaded from microsoft. I am using: debian woody kernel 2.4.18 XFree86 4.1 packages of debian woody 4.2 version of X binary (stolen from SuSE 8.0 distribution) xfs as well as xfstt kde 3.01 (compiled myself) I put

Re: true type fonts won't work...

2002-06-16 Thread Hubert Chan
Ronald == Ronald Verlaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Ronald As fontpaths in my XF86config-4 I only configured the xfs and Ronald xfstt font servers. This works as I do see all the fonts Ronald (including the TT fonts) listed with xlsfonts. Edit /etc/X11/XftConfig. Add an appropriate dir

Re: true type fonts won't work...

2002-06-16 Thread Ronald Verlaan
On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Hubert Chan wrote: Ronald As fontpaths in my XF86config-4 I only configured the xfs and Ronald xfstt font servers. This works as I do see all the fonts Ronald (including the TT fonts) listed with xlsfonts. Edit /etc/X11/XftConfig. Add an appropriate dir line. Sorry I

Re: true type fonts won't work...

2002-06-16 Thread Ronald Verlaan
On 16 Jun 2002, Peter Whysall wrote: Hi Peter, Any hints? Are you loading the freetype module in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ? Yes I did :P Thanx anyway! -- Ronald Verlaan http://www.ronaldverlaan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Try

Re: true type fonts won't work...

2002-06-16 Thread Stephan Hachinger
- Original Message - From: Ronald Verlaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peter Whysall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian User Mailinglist debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 9:35 PM Subject: Re: true type fonts won't work... On 16 Jun 2002, Peter Whysall wrote: Hi Peter

Re: true type fonts won't work...

2002-06-16 Thread Bob Proulx
I am trying to make anti-aliasing work for the true type fonts I downloaded from microsoft. I had tried to install them manually and had random troubles. Then I found the easiest way to make those work is to add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file to get non-US and non-free. deb

Re: true type fonts won't work...

2002-06-16 Thread Bob Proulx
I had tried to install them manually and had random troubles. Then I found the easiest way to make those work is to add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file to get non-US and non-free. deb http://misery.proulx.com:/non-US unstable/non-US non-free Ack! That is the machine

Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

2002-02-05 Thread Bob Thibodeau
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:46:03AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have the short version of how to set up true type fonts under X ? I installed xfstt and read the docs. Bob

Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

2002-02-05 Thread Josh
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Eric C. Cooper wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:46:03AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have the short version of how to set up true type fonts under X ? Here's what I did, maybe someone can point out the error in my ways. Add Load xtt

Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

2002-02-05 Thread briand
Josh == Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Josh An easier way to do this is: Josh apt-get install xfstt I should have specified that this is under X 4. which doesn't need a font server. Why not use anyway one you ask ? Josh throw all your truetype fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype Josh

true type fonts in X 4.x ?

2002-02-04 Thread briand
Does anyone have the short version of how to set up true type fonts under X ? Here's what I did, maybe someone can point out the error in my ways. Add Load xtt to XF86Config I also added /usr/share/fonts/truetype to the font path. run ttfmkfdir -o fonts.dir in my /usr/share/fonts

Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

2002-02-04 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:46:03AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have the short version of how to set up true type fonts under X ? Here's what I did, maybe someone can point out the error in my ways. Add Load xtt to XF86Config Change this to Load freetype I

Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

2002-02-04 Thread Scooter
Here's what I did. Turned on antialiasing in KDE Panel, apt-get install xfs, apt-get install xfstt, apt-get install msttcorefonts (this is a debian package for obtaining truetype fonts from Microsoft (they are free fonts). After all this apt-getting, reboot the machine, and you should have

Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

2002-02-04 Thread briand
type fonts under X ? Here's what I did, maybe someone can point out the error in my ways. Add Load xtt to XF86Config Eric Change this to Eric Load freetype I also added /usr/share/fonts/truetype to the font path. run ttfmkfdir -o fonts.dir

Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

2002-02-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:46:03AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have the short version of how to set up true type fonts under X ? One of the best source of TT fonts are from M$ :-( ii msttcorefonts 0.9.9 Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts Package

Re: True Type Fonts on Potato

2001-11-10 Thread Erik van der Meulen
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 12:39:58 +0100, Ville Uski wrote: * Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011109 12:10]: Than I went through the archives for Debian specific information and came across a pointer to a Debian TrueType Mini-Howto. Unfortunately I was unable to find such a document

true type fonts

2001-11-10 Thread Matt Fair
Does anyone know where I can get true type fonts? Like a debian package? Thanks, Matt

Re: true type fonts

2001-11-10 Thread DvB
Matt Fair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know where I can get true type fonts? Like a debian package? Thanks, Matt try apt-get install msttcorefonts. Then you might want to read the howto: http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/xfree4_tt.html HTH

True Type Fonts on Potato

2001-11-09 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi, I would like to improve the font display of my desktop for (mailnly) Mozilla and AbiWord. I think that the proper way to do this is by installing True Type fonts. I have a Potato box with Ximian Gnome. First I did an: apt-get install xfstt copied some *.ttf font files from a Windows box

Re: True Type Fonts on Potato

2001-11-09 Thread Ville Uski
* Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011109 12:10]: Than I went through the archives for Debian specific information and came across a pointer to a Debian TrueType Mini-Howto. Unfortunately I was unable to find such a document on the site. Any advice or pointer would be much appreciated!

Re: how to use true type fonts in X 3.3.6

2001-10-20 Thread alephtnull
read the debian-mini ttf-HOWTO. on a side note, why use staroffice? it'a a memory hog...use LaTeX instead if you really want to impress. -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

how to use true type fonts in X 3.3.6

2001-10-19 Thread Paolo Falcone
Can XFree86 3.3.6 (the one shipped in Potato) use True Type Fonts in applications? I'm interested to use some True Type Fonts especially with my documents I write using StarOffice. If so, how do I configure such? Paolo Falcone __ www.edsamail.com

Re: how to use true type fonts in X 3.3.6

2001-10-19 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Paolo Falcone: Can XFree86 3.3.6 (the one shipped in Potato) use True Type Fonts in applications? I'm interested to use some True Type Fonts especially with my documents I write using StarOffice. If so, how do I configure such? Paolo Falcone I believe in x 3.x you have to run

True Type Fonts

2001-08-20 Thread Dale Morris
I've been working on true type fonts and can't get them to work on XF86-4.3. I'm using Paul Smith's TrueType Fonts on Debian XFree86 4.x Systems at http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/xfree4_tt.html#NETSCAPE. I'm sure I've configured it the way he recommends, but when I run $ xset fp+ /usr/lib

Re: True Type Fonts-Solved!

2001-08-20 Thread Dale Morris
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Dale Morris wrote: I've been working on true type fonts and can't get them to work on XF86-4.3. I'm using Paul Smith's TrueType Fonts on Debian XFree86 4.x I was finally able to get true type font package working, but it entailed reinstalling XFree86 binaries

Re: True Type Fonts-Solved!

2001-08-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Dale Morris: On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Dale Morris wrote: I've been working on true type fonts and can't get them to work on XF86-4.3. I'm using Paul Smith's TrueType Fonts on Debian XFree86 4.x I was finally able to get true type font package working, but it entailed

true type fonts in gimp

2001-08-10 Thread john smith
Hi, I can see my ttf in netscape but in gimp the font is there but gimp complains that the selected font is not available Any clues? TIA pls CC me in the replies _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at

Re: ?True type fonts?

2001-07-03 Thread Harold Bibik
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:41:58PM +1000, Alan Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled I have seen some instructions for improving fonts in Netscape, often using True Type fonts. I resist moving any MS products onto my machine. Are there philosophical or practical arguements for or against

Re: ?True type fonts?

2001-07-02 Thread Joel Mayes
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:41:58PM +1000, Alan Davis wrote: I have seen some instructions for improving fonts in Netscape, often using True Type fonts. I resist moving any MS products onto my machine. Are there philosophical or practical arguements for or against using TT fonts

Re: ?True type fonts?

2001-07-02 Thread Martin Maciaszek
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:41:58PM +1000, Alan Davis wrote: I have seen some instructions for improving fonts in Netscape, often using True Type fonts. I resist moving any MS products onto my machine. Are there philosophical or practical arguements for or against using TT fonts

?True type fonts?

2001-07-01 Thread Alan Davis
I have seen some instructions for improving fonts in Netscape, often using True Type fonts. I resist moving any MS products onto my machine. Are there philosophical or practical arguements for or against using TT fonts? This question also touches upon TeX/LaTex; I have also seen

Re: make xfs serve windows true type fonts?

2001-04-28 Thread b3
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:31:26AM +0800, Eric Boo wrote: What's the difference between adding the path to xfs-xtt's config and adding it to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? Adding to xfs-xtt's config tells xfs-xtt about them. Adding to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 tells Xfree4 about them. Does running

make xfs serve windows true type fonts?

2001-04-25 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
So how can I make xfs serve all those true type fonts I have avaliable for windoxe. Is there a HOWTO or something avaliable I can read? I've managed to get wine running but apps look quite ugly without those ttfs. -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones

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