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Subject: Re: [Q] Fonts and XFree4
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com>
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On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 15:03, Jonathan Belson wrote:
> Joe Clarke wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 13:08, Jonathan Belson wrote:
> 
> >>I've just upgraded my XFree86 installation to 4.1.0 via ports.
> >>Pretty much everything is working apart from a problem with my
> >>truetype fonts: Mozilla can see them just fine, but KDE can't
> >>(in other words, they don't appear in the font requesters at
> >>all).  Applications which use motif (eg. nedit, netscape) have
> >>little squares instead of characters in the menu and title text.
> >>
> > Have you read:
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html
> 
> Thanks, yes I have.  I pretty much did exactly what it said...
> 
> > I'm using XFree 4.1, and I am able to use my TrueType fonts just fine. 
> > Admittedly, I'm using Gnome and not KDE.
> 
> Have you got any qt apps installed?  Do they work with true type fonts?

I have linux-opera installed, and it finds all my MS TrueType fonts. 
Did you do the ttmkfdir step?  That's important.  there's also some more
on TT fonts with XFree 4.x at:

http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/fonts.html

Joe

> 
>  
> --Jon
> 
> <http://www.witchspace.com>
> 
> 



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