Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:41:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> To: "FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fonts under FreeBSD Message-ID: <14762.45630.691454.805147@onceler.kciLink.com> In-Reply-To: <PHEBIOJOBJJLIIJCOINKMEMECHAA.noor@comrax.com> References: <PHEBIOJOBJJLIIJCOINKMEMECHAA.noor@comrax.com>
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>>>>> "ND" == Noor Dawod <noor@comrax.com> writes: ND> How can I transform Windows TTF fonts to be available under ND> FreeBSD? I understand that there are several ways of saving fonts ND> under FreeBSD, and I don't know what they are. Before I start ND> reading about this, I wanted to know if it's possible to transform ND> Windows TTF fonts to FreeBSD font format. If by "FreeBSD font format" you mean to make them usable with the X Window System, then all you need to do is install the xfstt port, the fonts you want, and then tell your X server to use the font server. Details: cd /usr/ports/x11-servers/Xfstt; make install cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/ttmkfdir; make install put your *.TTF fonts somewhere, such as /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype I had to also symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType to the above directory. Run ttmkfdir in that directory, and direct output to "fonts.scale". run xfstt telling it where to look for your fonts. add "unix/:7101" to your XFree font path using either xset or adding it to your XF86Config file. you now have access to your *.ttf fonts. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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