Re: [TCLUG:19169] Netscape fonts

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Ben Lutgens wrote:
> 
> > Oooold. RedHat has TT support out of the box now.
> 
> So you are sayin that in order for someone to get TT's they should purchase a
> brand new RedHat and reinstall?

Actually, I think RedHat has had built-in TrueType support for at least
a year, and I'm sure at least a few other distros have followed suit (or
maybe they did it before RedHat..  I dunno..)

> Or maybe they could read something and go through like 10 steps, and have it
> done. all I gotta do is apt-get install xfstt add FOntPath unix/:7101 to
> XF86COnfig, put some fonts in the appropriate dir and restart xfstt and
> restart X.

IIRC, if you use RedHat's X font server, it's a (relatively) simple
matter of dumping fonts in a particular directory, then running
`ttmkfdir', then running `mkfontdir', then running `xset fp+
/path/to/my/fonts' (this *must* be an absolute path), and maybe `xset fp
rehash'...  no restart of X required...

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