Re: How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

2001-03-19 Thread David Purton
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Alan Chandler wrote: On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 00:13:46 -0500, you wrote: I have Xfree86 v4 already; I am running (almost) the latest unstable. Therefore I do not use a separate TrueType font server. I guess then I am wondering what the best Debian way is to install a new

Re: How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

2001-03-18 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 00:13:46 -0500, you wrote: I have Xfree86 v4 already; I am running (almost) the latest unstable. Therefore I do not use a separate TrueType font server. I guess then I am wondering what the best Debian way is to install a new font. There are, if I remember correctly, some

Re: How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

2001-03-18 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Thanks for the answer. Is ttmkfdir better than mkttfdir, which I found on my system? Since my last message, I have gone ahead and installed the fonts, using mkttfdir, but maybe there's some reason to remake the fonts.dir file with ttmkfdir. I did notice that the Microsoft Web fonts were indicated

Re: How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

2001-03-18 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:32:50 -0500, you wrote: Thanks for the answer. Is ttmkfdir better than mkttfdir, which I found on my system? Since my last message, I have gone ahead and installed the fonts, using mkttfdir, but maybe Never heard of the other one - and its not in any debian package I have

Re: How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

2001-03-18 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
As the transcript below makes clear, it's in the fttools package. I've also included package info for fttools. Apparently an old release of the Debian package is in contrib, but I have the version in main installed, again as the transcript shows. This is unstable, of course, not stable. (But I

Re: How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

2001-03-16 Thread Ross Boylan
The handling of TT fonts changed with Xfree86 4; to save having to learn it to ways you might want to upgrade to v4 first. Or you might not; there have been various glitches with the upgrade process. For v3 there is a Debian HowTo True Type (probably in the debian site, not LDP). You need to

Re: How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

2001-03-16 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
I have Xfree86 v4 already; I am running (almost) the latest unstable. Therefore I do not use a separate TrueType font server. I guess then I am wondering what the best Debian way is to install a new font. There are, if I remember correctly, some TrueType-specific steps (something like ttmkfontdir

Re: How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

2001-03-15 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 07:53:45PM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: Hi everyone. I just downloaded a TrueType font (Lucida Sans Unicode) and am wondering what's the best way to install that so that everything works in the Debian fashion. You know, what's the official Debian policy-guided (etc.)

How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

2001-03-14 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Hi everyone. I just downloaded a TrueType font (Lucida Sans Unicode) and am wondering what's the best way to install that so that everything works in the Debian fashion. You know, what's the official Debian policy-guided (etc.) way to install a TrueType font? What packages do I need, what commands

Re: How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

2001-03-14 Thread John Galt
type1inst would be what I'd use... On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: Hi everyone. I just downloaded a TrueType font (Lucida Sans Unicode) and am wondering what's the best way to install that so that everything works in the Debian fashion. You know, what's the official Debian

Re: How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

2001-03-14 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
According to 'apt-cache show type1inst', that works on Adobe Type 1 fonts, not TrueType fonts. What would you suggest for TrueType fonts? - Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:33:08PM -0700, John Galt wrote: type1inst would be what I'd use... On Wed, 14 Mar 2001,