From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 27 20:20:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA17873 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 20:20:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [207.108.223.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA17868 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 20:20:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tera.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id UAA25013 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 20:19:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id UAA01128 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 20:10:00 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199711280410.UAA01128@tao.thought.org> Subject: freetype conversion (ttf2bdf) doesn't work with X To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (fquestions) Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 20:10:00 -0800 (PST) Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk For the past month or so I've been digging into getting new fonts working with unix|FBSD. Thanks duly noted to Dave Bodenstab, Chuck Robey, and others that helped me. Thanks to part of the FreeType project, I was able to translate many *ttf files to *.bdf. I translated several Serif fonts to BDF format in 14-, 18-, 20-, and 24-point sizes and changed the encoding designation from Unicode-2.0 to iso8859-2. After the *.bdf files were set, I translated them to *pcf. I ran xset fp+ on the new /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freetype directory; and mkfontdir; and rehashed. Still, xfontsel don't print its `sample text' for any of these files. Anybody know why not?? I removed the freefonts package because they displayed so poorly with XEmacs. I thought the reason was that the freefonts were not bitmapped, and assumed that my ttf2bdf|bdftopcf conversion would give us a nice, broad collection of typefaces that could be used in any X app. ((These typefaces--and dozens more--already work flawlessly with enscript; I'll be posting my port of these next year.)) What do I have to do to get these *pcf files recognized by X? I've got to be missing at least one step? thanks, gary kline PS: Please copy me at thought.org... . -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix