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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:07:02 +0100
From:      Rasputin <rasputin@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fonts
Message-ID:  <20010426130702.A33939@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <005b01c0ce46$954da460$0c0d84c8@pucrs.br>; from apolli@pucrs.br on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:46:50AM -0300
References:  <005b01c0ce46$954da460$0c0d84c8@pucrs.br>

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On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:46:50AM -0300, Alexandre Polli wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> 
> I might be getting nuts, but I remember that, while installing 4.2 some time ago I saw in the packages index a software, which I do not remember the name,  that would take the TT fonts of a Windows installation in the same HD and convert them to FreeBSD. Does this thing exist? Is it the the ultimate solution for the font problems in netscape?

I think it's called 'cp' . Any ttf fonts should work with both, shouldn't they?

> Also, how do I install new fonts into FreeBSD?

Copy them into a folder,  add that to your fontpath, and prepare it using
ttmkfdir. or is it mkttfdir?
If they're not prepared, the X Server says to run mkfontdir, but I
don't know if that understands TrueType or not.

(This worked for X 4.0.1 - it seems to be broken in 4.0.3, at least for me.)

Anyone else getting problems with it? I hava about 4 gfonts now, last month > 200.
And they all about an inch high, and come in two sizes:
"Too small to read" and
"So huge the blind guy in the next valley can read my mail over my shoulder".

-- 
Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns ::

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