On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 05:42:55 -0500 "Alan Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 08:14:01 -0600 Collins Richey wrote: > > I'm starting this thread to gather in all the information I can > about > > fonts. I'll be happy to write up a nice SxS for this when you > brains > > out there have provided enough comments for this to make sense for > my > > feeble brain. I'll throw out a few questions. Feel free to ask > the > > other questions I haven't thought about. > > > > * There used to be howto's that said a font manager daemon was > > necessary; then other howto's said, no that was now built into X; > now > > I see font manager daemons being rcommended again. What's the > scoop? > > > > * There's also the whole discussion about aa fonts. > > > > * I have the FreeTypes package installed and X4.1.0. How do I get > > these to work and be available for all my apps? > > > > * Are there any special considerations for various apss - Kword - > > Konqueror - Netscape - Abiword - etc.? > > > > * Does anything special need to be done to use fonts for printing. > I > > use cups. Any special considerations for this or for other > printing > > control systems? > > When I installed eW3.1, I also had to install GD::Graph for perl, > which > meant I had to install GD for perl, which required gd, which > required > ttf and freetype. Whew! > > It was kinda ugly when I tried to compile everything, but when I > grabbed > the rpms, it went much smoother. > > I used : > ttf-0.1-1col.noarch.rpm > freetype2-2.0.1-3 rpm > freetype2-devel-2.0.1-3 rpm > gd-1.83-2 rpm > > in that order. > > One thing I haven't quite scoped out yet is where to get and how to > install > new truetype fonts to really take advantage of all this effort. > > In terms of font servers, I have both RH 7.1 and eW 3.1, and they > are set up > completely differently. Here are the relevant parts of the > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > file : > > RH 7.1 > ---------------------------- > # By default, Red Hat Linux 6.0 and later use xfs > > Section "Files" > FontPath "unix/:7100" > EndSection > > # Module loading section > > Section "Module" > Load "dbe" # Double-buffering > Load "GLcore" # OpenGL support > Load "dri" # Direct rendering infrastructure > Load "glx" # OpenGL X protocol interface > Load "extmod" # Misc. required extensions > Load "v4l" # Video4Linux > # You only need the following two modules if you do not use xfs. > # Load "freetype" # TrueType font handler > # Load "type1" # Adobe Type 1 font handler > EndSection > -------------------------------- > > and here is the Caldera entry : > -------------------------------- > Section "Files" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" > FontPath "/usr/share/ghostscript/5.50/fonts" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf" > EndSection > > # Module loading section > > Section "Module" > Load "dbe" # Double-buffering > Load "GLcore" # OpenGL support > Load "dri" # Direct rendering infrastructure > Load "glx" # OpenGL X protocol interface > Load "extmod" # Misc. required extensions > Load "v4l" # Video4Linux > # You only need the following two modules if you do not use > xfs. > Load "freetype" # TrueType font handler > Load "type1" # Adobe Type 1 font handler > EndSection > -------------------------- > > So Redhat uses the x font server, (xfs), Caldera does not. > -- If you have a Windows distribution of any sort, you can copy over the /windows/fonts/*.ttf. Also, if you have any of the millions of nnn fonts cds for windows, you can look for the *.ttf files and copy them over. Then you run run ttmkfidr > fonts.dir in that directory, update your XF86Config-4, and restart X. Kword can use the fonts directly, but I haven't figured out Abiword or anything else. -- Collins Richey Denver Area gentoo_rc6 xfce+sylpheed _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
