I have a number of Mac Type 1 fonts that I'd like to use under Linux.
I'm running Linux-Mandrake 7.2 and I think I have most of the tools I
need -- but there are some things I don't understand.
Can you help me fill in the blanks?
For example, I'm going to run through what I think are all the steps
for a single font family ("DooWah") which presently lives on the Mac.
DooWah consists of:
- DooW (Postscript font, normal)
- DooWHea (Postscript font, heavy)
- DooWThi (Postscript font, thin)
- DooWah (a font suitcase containing bitmaps at various sizes)
I'm running Netatalk, so I copy these files onto the Linux box in their
own directory.
Since they're still in Mac format, they need to be "unmacified" for use
in Linux. I've installed the T1 type utilities which includes "t1unmac".
I start to convert them. This gives me a binary font file containing the POST
resources.
t1unmac DooW doowah.pfb
t1unmac DooWHea doowah-heavy.pfb
t1unmac DooWThi doowah-light.pfb
QUESTION: I'm making up the filenames on the Linux side. Is that OK? Do they
have to be lower case?
Now I'm down to the bitmap suitcase.
QUESTION: What do I do with this? It doesn't contain any POST resources
so I can't "unmacify" it. Do I need it on the Linux side?
I have type1inst on my system so I'm ready to install these fonts. In
their directory...
type1inst
This produces Fontmap, fonts.dir, fonts.scale, and type1inst.log. It tells me
that it can't identify the foundry. I manually edit fonts.scale and
fonts.dir, replacing "unknown" with the name of the foundry (in lower case).
I become the root user and add the path to this directory in the
/etc/X11/fs/config catalogue. I restart the fontserver.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart
Now -- according to everything I've read -- my X applications should be
able to see this new font family. They don't.
I've tried xfontsel and from within various applications. I've rebooted
the system, checked permissions, etc.
QUESTION: Where am I going wrong?
QUESTION: What are the practical side-effects of adding a large number
of fonts to X? Does it slow things down, consume memory, or anything
else?
QUESTION: Are you aware of any "font managment" packages for Linux that
help to organize large collections of fonts?
Thanks in advance for your help...
M.
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Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design
