According to xlsfont, KDrive does not see my scalable
fonts listed in the fonts.dir file.
I'm trying to figure out how to make KDrive/TinyX use
Microsoft's free TrueType fonts. I do not believe it
is using them because when I run xlsfont, only my
bitmapped fonts are listed - while my fonts.dir has
the MS verdana font entries at the bottom of the file.
Also, when I run the 'font' sample application that
comes with wxWindows 2.4.0, it can see only the
bitmapped fonts in fonts.dir.
I think KDrive/TinyX (Xvesa) is ignoring my scalable
font entries in fonts.dir.
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Here are the steps I have done:
1) Downloaded the XFree86-4.5.0-src-[1..7].tgz files
2) Unzipped them
3) Copied \config\cf\xf86site.def to
\config\cc\host.def
4) Edited the host.def as follows:
#define DefaultFontPath built-ins,\
/home/jimbob/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,\
/home/jimbob/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,\
/home/jimbob/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
#define RgbPath /home/jimbob/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb
#define KDriveXServer YES
#define TinyXServer YES
#define XvesaServer YES
#define BuildType1 YES
#define BuildFreeType YES
5) Downloaded and extracted the free Microsoft Core
True Type fonts, decided to use the 'verdana' font
6) Created a font.scale file with verdana.tff in the
/misc/ directory, then had that added to fonts.dir via
mkfontdir, using these commands:
ttmkfdir > fonts.scale
mkfontdir
7) Verified the verdana fonts were added to fonts.dir
(14 TTF entries were added). Here is the last bitmap
and first TTF font in fonts.dir:
9x15-KOI8-R.pcf.gz
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-koi8-r
verdana.ttf
-microsoft-Verdana-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0
8) Used the xlsfont program for X, and captured it's
output - which had fixed fonts but no verdana in the
output.
9) Use the wxWindows-2.4.0 'font' app to browse the
available fonts, which had fixed fonts but no verdana.
10) My linux build machine is Redhat 7.3, and the
PC-based device I am running this on uses a Redhat 7.3
kernel (with a custom OS layout due to the RPL
booting)
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Anyone spot any reason why TTF fonts would not be
recognized by KDrive?
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