From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 12:41: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from envy.geekhouse.net (envy.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 117CE37B42C for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 12:40:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jim@localhost) by envy.geekhouse.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e88Jelj04351; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 12:40:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 12:40:47 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Gail Jacobs Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TTF Importing...is it possible? Message-ID: <20000908124047.A4224@envy.geekhouse.net> Reply-To: jim@jmock.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from gsjacobs@netactive.co.za on Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:36:33PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 at 20:36:33 +0200, Gail Jacobs wrote: > Dear freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, > > thank you VERY much, for your help with my soundcard, its working > thanks to u guys =) > another question, in my transistion from windows to bsd. is it > possible to incorporate my windows .TTF and .FON fonts for use in bsd, > as there are some fonts that i am very fond of. i have tried creating > a symbolic link in my X11 fonts directory and adding it in the X11 > config file...but it seems that the X server doesn't like .TTF or .FON > files, and no new fonts are available when i check. i did run > "mkfontdir" which i presume is to update the fonts directory. any help > on this problem would yet again be much appreciated. You need to use a TrueType font server. Search the archives of this mailing list at http://www.FreeBSD.org/search/. This was talked about not too long ago (like, last month). - jim -- jim mock work: jim@osd.bsdi.com | jim@FreeBSD.org http://soupnazi.org/ BSDi Open Source Div | http://bsdi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message