Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:40:57 +0100 From: Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fonts Message-ID: <20010426164057.B39160@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <15080.11657.911799.41040@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:15:37AM -0500 References: <66486858@toto.iv> <15080.11657.911799.41040@guru.mired.org>
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* Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> [010426 15:17]: > Rasputin <rasputin@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> types: > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:46:50AM -0300, Alexandre Polli wrote: > > > > I might be getting nuts, but I remember that, while installing 4.2 > > > some time ago I saw in the packages index a software, which I do not > > > remember the name, that would take the TT fonts of a Windows > > > installation in the same HD and convert them to FreeBSD. Does this > > > thing exist? Is it the the ultimate solution for the font problems > > > in netscape? > > I think it's called 'cp' . Any ttf fonts should work with both, > > shouldn't they? > No, they don't. XFree86 3.3.x doesn't support ttf fonts > native. XFree86 4.0.x has to have the ttf font support enabled at > build time. Sorry, what I mean is the TTF format is crossplatform. I've got the freetype module loading, I just have a bad fonts.dir in the TrueType directory. If I make it with mkfontdir, X 4.0.3 doesn't complain, but xfontsel doesn't show them. If I use ttmkfdir, X grumbles about the format and ignores the directory. Boh... > The print/freetype port is a truetype font rendering engine. If > you're using XFree86 3.3.x, you can use the x11-servers/xtt-xfs port > to add truetype font support to X vai freetype. -- "The only real way to look younger is not to be born so soon." -- Charles Schulz, "Things I've Had to Learn Over and Over and Over" Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns :: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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