On Saturday 19 October 2002 12:05 am, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Friday 18 October 2002 12:07 am, Austin Acton wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 22:43, Yura Gusev wrote: > > > Better fonts (freetype hinting, please enable it if you can) and fonts > > > configuration tools. > > > > I know there are more important things, but drakfont does need some > > updating, a facelift, and some more user-friendliness. > > Austin > > And it needs to work. I had to give up on drakfont and read the Linux Fonts > HOWTO. I have boiled it down to the following: > ===== > For Red Hat, Mandrake, and other systems using the xfs extended for > TrueType fonts > > Install TrueType font > > 1. Copy to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF > 2. Create fonts.scale: ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale > 3. Create fonts.dir: mkfontdir > 4. Tell server: xset fp rehash
OK, it looks like everyone ignored my post about mkfontdir - it doesn't create the international font.dir entries! ttmkfdir does everything correctly. Also, you can just copy fonts.dir to fonts.scale once you are done. Thus, the correct procedure would be: 2. Create fonts.dir ttmkfdir -o fonts.dir 3. cp fonts.dir fonts.scale (all are scalable) -- -- Igor
