From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 28 11:41: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kci.kciLink.com (kci.kciLink.com [204.117.82.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7008E37B423 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:41:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [204.117.82.2]) by kci.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF29BE89F for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:41:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA30113; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:41:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera@kci.kciLink.com) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14762.45630.691454.805147@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:41:02 -0400 (EDT) To: "FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List" Subject: Re: Fonts under FreeBSD In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 11) "Carlsbad Caverns" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "ND" == Noor Dawod 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