Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:57:48 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Robert Ames <robertames@hotmail.com> Cc: "Brandon J.Wandersee" <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fonts.dir for TrueType fonts Message-ID: <20151230145748.GB84922@slackbox.erewhon.home> In-Reply-To: <BLU177-W92FF8B1084F6D39892A8DC9E70@phx.gbl> References: <BLU177-W405013A3DC6434EE436C31C9E70@phx.gbl> <86twn7erh7.fsf@WorkBox.Home> <BLU177-W92FF8B1084F6D39892A8DC9E70@phx.gbl>
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On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 12:39:39PM -0500, Robert Ames wrote:
> > From: brandon.wandersee@gmail.com
> > To: robertames@hotmail.com
> > CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: fonts.dir for TrueType fonts
> > Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 10:33:40 -0600
> >=20
> >=20
> > Robert Ames writes:
> >=20
> > > In the Handbook, under section "5.5.2. TrueType Fonts" it states:
> > >
> > >> Once the files have been copied into this directory, use ttmkfdir
> > >> to create a fonts.dir, so that the X font renderer knows that these
> > >> new files have been installed. ttmkfdir is available from the FreeBSD
> > >> Ports Collection as x11-fonts/ttmkfdir.
> > > =20
> > > ttmkdir is not in the current Ports Collection. So how does one=20
> > > create fonts.dir?
> > >
> > > I'm assuming the Handbook is out of date so I guess what I'm really
> > > asking is how does one add TrueType fonts?
> >
> > Fonts I've added to ~/.fonts have always just worked, as have fonts
> > installed from ports. Are you having an issue with a particular font, or
> > were you just following along in the Handbook and got stuck when it
> > called for x11-fonts/ttmkfdir?
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> Just following along in the Handbook. I've installed TrueType fonts in
> /usr/local/share/fonts/TrueType/ and added a FontPath to /etc/X11/xorg.co=
nf.
> Was just making sure there was nothing else I needed to do.
Instead of querying the X-server, most modern applications (including those
built on the GTK+ and QT toolkits) these days use the fontconfig library in
combination with freetype to discover fonts. By default, this is set to look
for fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts and /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts and
subdirectories. So any new fonts you put there should be found automatically
after running fc-cache(1) to renew the cache.
Like presumably many others I have a collection of fonts that I use and ins=
tall on all
my machines. The following is the script that I use to install these fonts =
and
make them visible to the system.
#!/bin/sh
if [ `id -u` -ne 0 ]; then
echo "This script must be run as root."
exit 1
fi
FDIR=3D/usr/local/share/fonts/local/
# Remove all files to make sure we don't leave any cruft.
rm -f $FDIR/*
install -C -m 644 -v *.otf *.ttf *.pfb $FDIR
# Update fontconfig cache
fc-cache -svf $FDIR
As you can see I don't bother using mkfontscale.
Roland
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R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/
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