Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 22:00:03 -0500 From: "Michael C. Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net> To: jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org, dan@freebsddiary.org Subject: Re: TrueType Fonts Message-ID: <20000511220003.A88399@peorth.iteration.net> In-Reply-To: <39182AF6.EE4C8AB7@siteplus.com>; from jim@siteplus.com on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:12:54AM -0400 References: <39182AF6.EE4C8AB7@siteplus.com>
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On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:12:54AM -0400, jim Weeks scribbled: | On Tue, 9 May 2000, Michael Chin-Yuan Wu wrote: | TrueType fonts for FreeBSD/XFree86 | | The following operation requires root access. | | The easiest way to use TrueType (*.ttf) fonts in FreeBSD/XFree86 is to first install XfStt from the ports collection. This port is found under X11-servers. | | Once installed you will need to create the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts /TrueType which is where XfStt looks for fonts. Next you should populate the directory with fonts. | | TrueType (*.ttf) fonts are easily found and several are even available for do wnload on the Microsoft web site. One way to get the fonts is to zip the font d irectory on that old Ms Windows machine before you reformat the drive for FreeB SD. If you are lucky enough to have the old machine on a local network you may want to ftp the fonts over to your FreeBSD machine. | | Once you have the fonts in your new TrueType directory you are ready to start the server. You can start it by simply typing "xfstt &" at the command prompt . You should insure that xfstt is started at boot time. This is easily accomplished by adding the following lines to /etc/rc.local | | /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt & | echo "XfStt" | | The font database will be synchronized the first time you start the server. If you wish to add fonts later you will need to stop the server and type "xfstt --sync" to re-synchronize the database. | | The last thing you need to do is make Xfree86 recognize your new fonts. In o rder to do this you will need to add the following line to your list of fonts in /etc/XF86Config, | | FontPath "unix/:7100" | | where "7100" is the default port for the native FreeBSD version of XfStt. | | You should now be ready to start X and test your installation. If you have N etscape installed you can check under Edit/Preferences/Fonts. The new fonts should now be visible in the Variable width fonts menu. | ---end quoted text--- After reading this over, I find that this tutorial may not be a great part of the distribution. However, I know a great place for this article and should not require much if any modification. Please consider allowing www.freebsddiary.org to have this article. I am sure that Dan would put it in the Diary. Would you consider it? Jim Thank you very much, -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net - Yes, this is a conspiracy. | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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