�Buchan Milne� sagte am 2002-03-20 um 14:31:26 +0200 :
> I think this is the wrong ttmkfdir, which segfaults and creates an emtpy
> fonts.dir (at least it did for me). I think you need to use mkttfdir

It works fine for me.

> from perlftlib. drakfont will do this for you if perlftlib is installed,

Hm, I have perlftplib installed and thus mkttfdir is available, however
it doesn't seem to be run.  Or at least I don't get the expected
results.

I downloaded the Microsoft Core Fonts from the Microsoft site (Comic
Sans, Verdana and such) and extracted.  Next I copied all the TTFs to
one directory and changed their names to all lower case.  I then started
drakfont and add the directory containing all the ttfs to the list of to
be installed "files".  I then clicked on Add and on Okay in the next
screen.

Then drakfont does it thing.  It copies all the files to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf and creates a 0 byte fonts.dir
file.  WHen I then start gfontsel, I only see one encoding of Verdana,
and not all the encodings (like iso-8859-15, -10, ...).  Further, the
font is of foundry "unknown".

Also running mkttfdir by hand only produces a fonts.dir file with one
encoding: iso-8859-1.

But when I cd to the ttf font directory and run "ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale
; mkfontdir ; service xfs restart ; gfontsel", I'll see the fonts with
the correct foundry and in all the encodings.

So, to sum up - drakfont doesn't work well.

> but it isn't installed by default. Also, there was one other problem

Dunno about perlftlib, but freetype-tools isn't installed by default,
yes.  And I think this is also an error.  But you seem to be right, I
can remove perlftlib without any errors.

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