Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:16:18 -0800 (PST) From: Marc W <mwlist@lanfear.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: TrueType Fonts and 4.2 Message-ID: <200103140616.WAA91473@akira.lanfear.com>
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ARGH! I give up.
After a good three hours of fiddling, I remain unable to get
truetype fonts working with FreeBSD 4.2 and its X server.
I tried the instructions in the FreeBSD handbook, except there is
no "freetype" module in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/modules directory; per
mailing list archives, I've fiddled with xfstt, except xfstt refuses to
find anything, no matter what is put in /usr/share/fonts/truetype; and
xfs refuses to do anything except crash if i put
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType in its search path in the config
file.
Amazingly enough, ttmkfdir seems to work just OK and lets me create
fonts.dir files no problems.
My understanding is that XFree86 4 (used in 4.2, I assume) is
supposed to just 'work' with all this stuf ... ?
So, the question is: What do YOU do to get TrueType fonts working
in FreeBSD.
I'll do my best to put together a little mini-HOWTO when I'm done.
I've seen tonnes of questions on this in the Mailing List Archives, but
few answers :-)
thanks.
marc.
Marc W, San Francisco, CA
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