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Date:      Thu, 24 Dec 2015 10:33:40 -0600
From:      Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com>
To:        Robert Ames <robertames@hotmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions\@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: fonts.dir for TrueType fonts
Message-ID:  <86twn7erh7.fsf@WorkBox.Home>
In-Reply-To: <BLU177-W405013A3DC6434EE436C31C9E70@phx.gbl>
References:  <BLU177-W405013A3DC6434EE436C31C9E70@phx.gbl>

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Robert Ames writes:

> In the Handbook, under section "5.5.2. TrueType Fonts" it states:
>
>> Once the files have been copied into this directory, use ttmkfdir
>> to create a fonts.dir, so that the X font renderer knows that these
>> new files have been installed. ttmkfdir is available from the FreeBSD
>> Ports Collection as x11-fonts/ttmkfdir.
>  
> ttmkdir is not in the current Ports Collection.  So how does one 
> create fonts.dir?
>
> I'm assuming the Handbook is out of date so I guess what I'm really
> asking is how does one add TrueType fonts?
>
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Fonts I've added to ~/.fonts have always just worked, as have fonts
installed from ports. Are you having an issue with a particular font, or
were you just following along in the Handbook and got stuck when it
called for x11-fonts/ttmkfdir?

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