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Article #47Re: tt fonts in X: you're kidding, right?
From: Mark Williams
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 00:00
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 00:00
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It (almost) worked out of the box for me: using Mandrake 7.1 XFree86-4.0
rpms and DrakFont. This is what I did:
1) ran DrakFont (as root) which automatically found my Windows partition &
directory and copied all the TT fonts into a new directory on my Linux
partition.
2) DrakFont updated my /etc/X11/xfs/config (i think) ; this didn't work
because my Xfree86 4.0 xfs seems to get its configuration from the
XF86config instead. I copied the new font paths across from the former to
the latter, restarted xfs and...
3) everything works (though I haven't got into printing yet).
YMMV of course,
Mark
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Mark Williams mark@pepper-mill.freeserve.co.uk
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Jason Stokes <jstok@bluedog.apana.org.au> wrote in message
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> Marcus Leonard wrote in message
<8hvjr9$hnp$1@towncrier.cc.monash.edu.au>...
> >Okay, come on, you can all admit it now: it's actually not possible to
get
> >tt fonts running under X, is it?
>
>
> Yes, it is possible, it's just difficult because it requires a fair amount
> of system administration. Why the distributions don't work on getting
True
> Type fonts to work out of the box is a mystery to me.
>
>
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