Hello Thaths,
This is what I did to get windows fonts to be detected by mozilla.
1. If you don't have a /usr/share/fonts/TrueType directory, create one.
# mkdir /usr/share/fonts/TrueType
# cd /usr/share/fonts/TrueType
2. Make sure that all the font files you're copying have lower-case
extensions, so if you have files like font.TTF, rename that to
font.ttf
3. Copy the fonts to /usr/share/fonts/TrueType
4. Change into that directory:
# copy /mnt/C:\/windows/fonts/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TrueType/.
# cd /usr/share/fonts/TrueType
5. Issue the following commands to build the necessary fonts.scale and
fonts.dir:
# ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale
# mkfontdir
6. This should have now created the fonts.scale and fonts.dir files
7. Now go to you /etc/X11 directory so that you can add the new font
directory to the search path of your X server by adding it to the
fonts section of XF86Config
8. Edit XF86Config - Go to the "Files" section and add the FontPath
there, mine looks like the following after editing:
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TrueType"
9. Now for the Mozilla part! Go to the directory you installed Mozilla
in, located at /usr/local/mozilla. Change into
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/defaults/pref. Note your mozilla may be installed
somewhere else. In redhat, try
# rpm -ql mozilla grep unix.js
to get the path where your unix.js file resides.
10. Backup the unix.js preference file so that you can get back to it
if anything screws up:
# cp unix.js unix.js.bak
12. Edit the unix.js file and look for the TrueType section and change
it to look like the following snippet:
// TrueType
pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6");
// if libfreetype was built without hinting compiled in
// it is best to leave hinting off
pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", false);
pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false);
// below a certian pixel size anti-aliased fonts produce poor results
pref("font.antialias.min", ;
pref("font.embedded_bitmaps.max", 1000000);
pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.min", 0);
pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.gain", "0.7");
// sample prefs for
TrueType font dirs
pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/usr/share/fonts/TrueType");
pref("font.directory.truetype.2", "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF");
//pref("font.directory.truetype.3", "/u/sam/tt_font3");
pref("font.FreeType2.printing", true);
That should get mozilla to detect the fonts for you.
PS: I did this a long time back. And I was using RedHat. But I had
written these steps in a file which I have shown above. Please let me
know if you got it right.
Regards
Ravi
On 9/27/05, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am running a Debian etch machine (currently, testing). I would like
> to install a ttf font that I like on this machine and get Mozilla and
> gimp to see this font. How do I go about doing this? My X is using xfs
> for its fonts. I think I need to make xfs aware of the new font. It
> looks like defoma is used to manage the fonts. But I am unable to find
> out how I use defoma with this ttf font.
>
> Thaths
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