Re: [aclug-L] fonts...

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 02:28:12PM -0600, Jesse Kaufman wrote:

> John Goerzen wrote:
> 
> ok, i already had that installed thinking it would help... then in /usr/fonts 
> or
> whatever xfstt's default font dir is, i put a symlink to /win9x/windows/fonts,

You have to add them to the fontpath in the XF86Config file.

The exact thing depends on how you are starting it.

You can also try:

  xset fp+ unix/:7101

Or add this line to /etc/X11/XF86Config:

FontPath "unix/:7101"

(Assuming you are running it on port 7101, the default)

Once you do this, all your X apps will see them.

> and it says it found 58 fonts there, but i can't seem to use them in anything
> SO4.0 doesn't see them, nothing else i've seen can see them...  are they just
> not supported?

Not supported until X has been told to use them :-)

> ok, i think i've got some type1 on my printer cd, but how do i go about
> installing them? is there a program (crazy idea, but what the heck) that
> converts from ttf to type1?

ttf cannot really be converted to Type 1, at least not without losing *some*
information.  Maybe the information lost wouldn't be noticeable, but then
again maybe it would.  This is because Type 1 and TrueType use fundamentally
different, and incompatible, ways of recording information.

As for installing, can you paste an ls -l of a directory into here?  Type 1
fonts can come in a couple different forms, and the procedure varies
depending on what form yours are in.

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