From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 28 11:21:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from luna.osd.bsdi.com (luna.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEFFF37B42C for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:21:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jim@localhost) by luna.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e7SILQY20561; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:21:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:21:25 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Noor Dawod Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Subject: Re: Fonts under FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000828112125.B19560@luna.osd.bsdi.com> Reply-To: jim@jmock.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from noor@comrax.com on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 08:48:42PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 at 20:48:42 +0200, Noor Dawod wrote: > Hello all, > > How can I transform Windows TTFs to be available under FreeBSD? I don't know that you can, but you *can* use TTF fonts under FreeBSD. > I understand that there are several ways of saving fonts under > FreeBSD, and I don't know what they are. Before I start reading about > this, I wanted to know if it's possible to transform Windows TTF fonts > to FreeBSD font format. Install /usr/ports/x11-servers/Xfstt, then put the TTFs in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType. Then do the following: # xfstt --sync # xfstt & # xset fp+ unix/:7101 You should be able to use them after doing that (at least, that's worked for me in the past :-) - jim -- jim mock work: jim@osd.bsdi.com | jim@FreeBSD.org http://soupnazi.org/ BSDi Open Source Div | http://bsdi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message