FWIW, my ttf's have mixed case and it seems to make no difference so far. On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 14:25, Brad De Vries wrote: > Tim, two quick questions: > 1) I seem to remember that either chkfontdir or > ttmkfdir could only handle fonts with lowercase names. > When you copied the fonts from Windows, did the newly > created font files contain uppercase letters? > > 2) Again, IIRC, the ttmkfdir command only created the > fonts.scale file and mkfontdir command created the > fonts.dir. Do you have both of these files and do > they look okay? > > Brad. > --- Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been trying to troubleshoot a problem with > > TrueType fonts and RH 8. I *had* TrueType fonts > > sorta working, but was getting occasional crashes of > > XFS (x font server). After playing with the system > > over the weeked, I mananged to find a way to crash > > xfs 100% of the time. All I needed to do was try to > > change fonts in an OOo document. > > > > In order to try and rectify the problem once and for > > all, I decided to try to uninstall the TTF's and > > re-install them according to > > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/ref-guide/s1-x-fonts.html > > > > In the process of doing this, I ran into this known > > bug, > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77272 > > which indicates a problem that ttmkfdir has with bad > > ttf fonts. So I managed to find a set of fonts, thru > > the process of elimination, that ttmkfdir liked, but > > I'm still having problems. > > > > I installed my "good" fonts into > > /usr/share/fonts/TrueType > > I then ran ttmkfdir to create the fonts.dir and > > fonts.scale files. > > I then ran chkfontdir --add > > /usr/share/fonts/TrueType and > > chkfontdir --list to make sure the directory got > > listed. > > I then ran /sbin/service xfs restart to reload the > > new fonts > > > > But, when I ran xlsfonts, none of the new fonts were > > listed. I've since tried to install only a single > > font in the /usr/share/fonts/TrueType directory, > > comic.ttf, but even that seems to be failing. > > > > And there's more puzzling stuff... > > OOo seems to see the TTF fonts, now, despite them > > not being seen by xlsfonts. I just started OOo > > remotely and al the previously installed TTF's > > appear to be available. Damn peculiar. Where does > > OOo find fonts? It's listing ALL the TTF's I *had* > > installed, even though they shouldn't *be* instaled > > anymore (cuz I'm only trying to get the 1 font to be > > seen by xlsfonts). I originally had the fonts > > installed in > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType, but have since > > removed that directory. > > > > I'm getting close to being at my wit's end on this. > > Anybody have a large clue stick they can hit me > > with? > > > > Thanks, > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
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