From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 16 21:40:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.on.home.com (ha1.rdc1.on.wave.home.com [24.2.9.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6694B1521C for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:40:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter-c@home.com) Received: from cs54642-a ([24.64.174.71]) by mail.rdc1.on.home.com (InterMail v4.00.03 201-229-104) with SMTP id <19990317054026.UYYR22379.mail.rdc1.on.home.com@cs54642-a> for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:40:26 -0800 Message-ID: <199903170040250010.01B8BB2D@mail> X-Mailer: Calypso Lite Version 2.40.41.08 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:40:25 -0500 Reply-To: peter-c@home.com From: "C. Peter Constantinidis" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Type1 Postscript Font problem with XFree86 3.3.3.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a general problem I'm having and I can't seem to resolve it. All the people I ask about it don't know how to fix it, or have never messed with fonts and then say Linux is better. Uh yeah. So, I have compiled X from ports rather than install it as a package. X is running and everything.. mkfontdir only seems to work on directories that have files like *.pcf, etc. in them as the manual page would indicate. Thing is, it doesn't seem to do ANYTHING at all for postscript, etc. fonts, and makes the fonts.dir an empty file, and doesn't make fonts.scale at all. I have a lot of postscript fonts, and I find it hard to believe I will be expected to manually, and by hand, type in all the info. for each font file, one by one. So I'm obviously doing something wrong, but what.. what.. I read the fonts tutorial at www.freebsd.org, and it seems to= indicate that for postscript fonts you have to do it by hand. This can't be right.. Not to mention while I was screwing around last night and tried xset fp rehash, it said something like error 38 and refused to complete the operation. That doesn't matter right now, I'm just trying to find out WHY mkfontdir doesn't add my postscript fonts, etc. I'll be so happy if someone can offer helpful advice. Running 3.1 Stable Best, P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message