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> From: brandon.wandersee@gmail.com
> To: robertames@hotmail.com
> CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: fonts.dir for TrueType fonts
> Date: Thu=2C 24 Dec 2015 10:33:40 -0600
>=20
>=20
> Robert Ames writes:
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> > In the Handbook=2C under section "5.5.2. TrueType Fonts" it states:
> >
> >> Once the files have been copied into this directory=2C use ttmkfdir
> >> to create a fonts.dir=2C 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.
> > =20
> > ttmkdir is not in the current Ports Collection.  So how does one=20
> > 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 I'm assuming the Handbook is out of date so I guess what I'm really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?
>
> Fonts I've added to ~/.fonts have always just worked=2C as have fonts
> installed from ports. Are you having an issue with a particular font=2C o=
r
> were you just following along in the Handbook and got stuck when it
> called for x11-fonts/ttmkfdir?

Just following along in the Handbook.  I've installed TrueType fonts in
/usr/local/share/fonts/TrueType/ and added a FontPath to /etc/X11/xorg.conf=
.
Was just making sure there was nothing else I needed to do.

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