Hi Martin! Am 20.03.2004 um 11:32 schrieb Martin Costabel: > > What format is this font file?
It's "Mac Postscript" they say. Some of the files end with .fam, .bmap, .afm, some don't have any extension. > If it is something that fondu can understand, you can run fondu on it > and put the resulting ttf file into one of the subdirectories of > /sw/lib/X11/fonts/. Have a look at the applesystemfonts.info file to > see how the applesystemfont package does this. Actually, rebuilding > and installing the applesystemfonts package might even capture your > new font automatically, depending on its file format. That was the first thing I tried, but it didn't work. And there is no rotis in /sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf. > > I don't really understand how scribus and inkscape are finding their > fonts. Both use freetype and fontconfig, but it seems to me they are > not using quite the same mechanism. Scribus seems to detect only those > fonts that are already known to the running X11 server, i.e. those in > the Font Path given by 'xset -q', whereas inkscape manages to look > also in some other system directories. But I don't really know what I > am talking about here. O.K. so far, thank you for your help. Ralf
