From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 4 1:55: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from raven.plab.ku.dk (raven.plab.ku.dk [130.225.105.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3002537B5F4 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 01:54:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dk@raven.plab.ku.dk) Received: (from dk@localhost) by raven.plab.ku.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA11374; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 10:54:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from dk) Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Comment-To: "Kevin Oberman" To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of TruType fonts in X11 and gimp References: <200007040038.e640c1n00385@ptavv.es.net> From: Dmitry Karasik In-Reply-To: "Kevin Oberman"'s message of "Mon, 03 Jul 2000 17:38:01 -0700" Date: 04 Jul 2000 10:54:20 +0200 Message-ID: <84sntqe0n7.fsf@raven.plab.ku.dk> Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Kevin! On 04 ÉÀÌ 00 at 02:38, "Kevin" (Kevin Oberman) wrote: Kevin> I have a custom font that is a ttf. I have built and installed Kevin> ttmkfdir and made the fonts.dir in the local fonts directory. What Kevin> else do I need to do to use the font? Do I need to run a font Kevin> server? Does it need patches to support TruType fonts? The font server in XFree86-4.0 usually works well with ttfs. Previous versions require patches ( for example, http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/). -- Sincerely, Dmitry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message