On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 23:16, Jay Daniels wrote: > On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 21:26, Vidiot wrote: > > >Vidiot wrote: > > >> Does anyone have a good listing for tahoma and tahomabd in which to place > > >> into the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/fonts.dir file? > > > > > >cd into the webfonts directory, and type "mkfontdir". That will create > > >the fonts.dir file for you. > > > > I see something, I think. If I understand this correctly, mkfontdir doesn't > > handle scalable fonts and relies upon the fonts.scale file. So, what the > > Hell is used to make the fonts.scale file? > > > > Which came first, the chicken or the egg. This is what this problem is > > beginning to look like. > > > > MB > > Procedure I used to add tt fonts to my box. Had a hard time getting > those fonts to show up. > > I removed all spaces and underscores, dashes etc from the font names so > they look like thisfontname.ttf I don't know if it was the spaces or > what but xfs did not seem to work until I did this.
Also made all font filenames lowercase. > > Then copied them to /usr/share/fonts/microsoft or what ever directory > you want to use. Then edit /etc/X11/fs/config > > # note: some fonts already installed conflict with windows true type > font so I comment out some lines till I find the problem and ended up > with the following... > > # format of config > # where to look for fonts > # > catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1, > /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1, > /usr/share/fonts/microsoft/ > > Get rid of any fonts.scale and fonts.dir > > xfs server will recreate those with the new fonts. I should have said the xfs start script will run the proper commands to recreate the fonts.scale, etc. > > cd /usr/share/fonts/microsoft/ > rm fonts.* > > [localhost@root]$ /etc/init.d/xfs restart > > You may want to tail -f /var/log/messages to make sure xfs restarted > correctly and you didn't miss any font filenames with spaces or whatever > caused the problem. > > $ startx & > > # from terminal run > $ xfontsel & > > hum, I have over 6000 ttfonts available to X programs like gnome and > gimp! However, some don't play with certain apps especially the version > of Mozilla that comes with RedHat. So I download the Netscape > PreRelease version 7.0 (i think it was). It has ttfont support built in. > > Although I do not know if Galeon has support for ttfonts, I did not have > any problem reading or viewing the default fonts in Galeon like I did > redhats version of mozilla. > > If any of this is incorrect, please correct! Some of my ttfonts came > from w2k. It had all sorts of files there that did not end in .TTF or > .ttf I deleted those other files since I did not know what they were > for. Anyone know? > > > > jay _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
