From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 24 4:40:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.midsouth.rr.com (mail.midsouth.rr.com [24.92.68.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF9E151A9 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 04:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smpitts@midsouth.rr.com) Received: from ender.midsouth.rr.com ([24.92.64.1]) by mail2.midsouth.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with SMTP id com for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 06:36:35 -0500 Received: (qmail 47533 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Sep 1999 11:35:52 -0000 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 06:35:52 -0500 From: Stephen Pitts To: freebsd Subject: Re: installing xfstt on new 3.3 install question Message-ID: <19990924063551.B47489@ender.midsouth.rr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 10:04:31PM -0700, Francis J. Bruening wrote: > Hello, > > I'm following the INSTALL doc for xfstt .9.10. I installed > the package from the 3.3 ISO image. > > It says to put some .ttf fonts into /usr/ttfonts. > > when I issue a 'xfstt --sync' command, I get the follwing error > message : /usr/x11R6/lib/X11/font/TrueType not found... For me, I just linked /win98/WINDOWS/FONTS (the fonts directory on my windows drive) to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/font/Truetype, but just creating this directory and shoving some TTF files in it should be fine. > > Is the doc out of sync with the binary for this? If I remember > playing with xfstt a while back on SuSE linux, the fonts went > some other place than /usr/ttfonts... From an investigation inside the source (/usr/ports/x11-servers/Xfstt) patch-ab in the patches directory changes the default font directory from /usr/ttfonts to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/font/Truetype. Ask the ports maintainer :-) > > 1) What should I do to get xfstt working? > 2) Is there an alternative to get TT support that I'm not aware of? > Yep, you can compile TTF support directly into the X server using one of the /usr/ports/x11-server/XttXF86-srv-* packages. I've already rebuild X from source once (needed it to build the GLX module for my TNT2), and I'd say that xfstt is much easier to get. -- Stephen Pitts smpitts@midsouth.rr.com webmaster - http://www.mschess.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message