Thanks Alex re the font-cache explanation. As for the one size issue -- I understand that TrueType fonts are scalable, but the question is whether the fact that xlsfonts etc will only show "size 0" won't confuse applications. I as a human will manage when typing resource values...
N. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alexander Gottwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2005 10:51 am Subject: Re: TrueType problem + question > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, nitzan shaked wrote: > > > Alex, Thomas > > > > Thank you both. It works, of course... In the mean time I > figured out that I do need to run mkfontdir. There are a couple of > follow-up questions: > > > > 1) What is FT's "font cache"? Is that related to the fonts.cache- > 1? I assume if I just delete it it will get rebuilt. > > A cache where Freetype stores information about fonts. Yes. Yes, > if you call fc-cache or font-update. > > > > > 2) There is no fonts.alias file. I assume that's why xfontsel > will only show one size per font. Is that the way you work as > well, or do you create a font file (eg a PERL script)? > > For truetype fonts there is no set of font sizes. You can scale > them to > any size you want. Use the entries from xfontsel as base and just > add the > fontsize as illustrated in my previous mail. > > bye > ago > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723 >
