From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 7:15:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D2FE137B423 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 07:15:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 5956 invoked by uid 100); 26 Apr 2001 14:15:37 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15080.11657.911799.41040@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:15:37 -0500 To: Rasputin , apolli@pucrs.br Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fonts In-Reply-To: <66486858@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rasputin types: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:46:50AM -0300, Alexandre Polli wrote: > > 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? No, they don't. XFree86 3.3.x doesn't support ttf fonts native. XFree86 4.0.x has to have the ttf font support enabled at build time. The print/freetype port is a truetype font rendering engine. If you're using XFree86 3.3.x, you can use the x11-servers/xtt-xfs port to add truetype font support to X vai freetype. > > Also, how do I install new fonts into FreeBSD? If you want FreeBSD fonts, they go in /usr/share/syscons/fonts and are loaded with vidfont. The format isn't well documented, but it's not a scalable font. If you want X fonts, then it's a bit more complicated, and depends on the font format. I'd check the XFree86 site for details. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message