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From: Gene Harris <zeus@tetronsoftware.com>
To: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@ds.net>
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Subject: Re: More on XFSTT & Linux Emulation
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On my system, I did have to make one change to your script.
The --dir /usr/.../TrueType option  needs to be present.
On my system, I get a core dump without it.  I also took the
PORT out, because this is the default.

Great Work!

*==============================================*
*Gene Harris      http://www.tetronsoftware.com*
*FreeBSD Novice                                *
*==============================================*

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, James A. Mutter wrote:

>  Not only does it work, it seems to work rather well.  I must say that
>  I'm pretty happy, this has saved me the trouble of building another box
>  just to serve fonts.  
>  
>  Gene Harris wrote:
>  > 
>  > Yep, this does indeed work.  And, against my better
>  > judgement, the upgrade to rh 6.1 didn't break my StarOffice!
>  > It is nice to use my FreeBSD server to feed my truetype
>  > fonts to netscape.
>  > 
>  > *==============================================*
>  > *Gene Harris      http://www.tetronsoftware.com*
>  > *FreeBSD Novice                                *
>  > *==============================================*
>  > 
>  > On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, James A. Mutter wrote:
>  > 
>  > >  After looking a bit deeper into this I've managed to come up with some
>  > >  basic instructions for getting this accomplished:
>  > >
>  > >  First and foremost - you'll need the latest Linux Emulation system.
>  > >  cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base && make install
>  > >
>  > >  grab the xfstt rpm from:
>  > >  ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/openlinux/contrib/RPMS/libc6/xfstt-1.0-1.i386.rpm
>  > >
>  > >  mkdir xfstt
>  > >  mv xfstt-1.0-1.i386.rpm xfstt
>  > >  cd xfstt
>  > >  rpm2cpio < xfstt-1.0-1.i386.rpm | cpio -id
>  > >
>  > >  cp usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt /usr/compay/linux/usr/X11R6/bin
>  > >  cp usr/doc/xfstt-1.0 /usr/share/doc
>  > >  cp usr/X11R6/man/xfstt.1x /usr/X11R6/man/man1/
>  > >
>  > >  mkdir -p /usr/compat/linux/var/cache/xfstt
>  > >
>  > >  add the following script to /usr/local/etc/rc.d
>  > >
>  > >  < -- begin -- >
>  > >  XFSTT=/usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt     # the executable
>  > >  CACHE=/usr/compat/linux/var/cache/xfstt         # the cache directory
>  > >  TTFONTS=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType       # keep fonts here
>  > >  PORT=7101       # port number
>  > >  USER=nobody     # you don't want this running as root, do you?
>  > >  RES=120         # if the fonts are too large try 90
>  > >
>  > >  if [ -x /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt ]; then
>  > >    $XFSTT --cache $CACHE --dir $TTFONTS --sync
>  > >    $XFSTT --port $PORT --user $USER --dir $TTFONTS --cache $CACHE --res
>  > >  $RES --daemon
>  > >  fi
>  > >  < -- end -- >
>  > >
>  > >  Add the following line to /etc/XF86Config:
>  > >  FontPath   "unix/:7101"
>  > >
>  > >  If you can't figure out where to add this line you probably shouldn't be
>  > >  messing
>  > >   with this in the first place.
>  > >
>  > >  Copy a bunch of TT fonts to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType.  I copied
>  > >  all of
>  > >  Windows fonts (C:\Windows\Fonts\*) - If nothing else, Windows fonts are
>  > >  nice to
>  > >  look at.
>  > >
>  > >  that's about it - start the font server with "sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d" or
>  > >  if you're feeling so inclined you can just restart your machine.
>  > >
>  > >
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