Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 15:57:41 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee> To: Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Tru Type fonts Message-ID: <19990716155741.A693@myhakas.matti.ee> In-Reply-To: <19990716102054.A16417@sr.se>; from Gunnar Flygt on Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 10:20:54AM %2B0200 References: <19990716083007.A10185@sr.se> <19990716105625.A7319@myhakas.matti.ee> <19990716102054.A16417@sr.se>
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On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 10:20:54AM +0200, Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se> wrote: > > > In RedHat 6.0 there is a tool to make TT fonts avaliable for X called > > > ttmkfont Is there anyone who has made this to work under FreeBSD 3.2? > > > The program dumps core if I just move it and the accompanying lib file > > > to my FreeBSD box. > > > > Look at ports/x11-fonts/ttmkfdir-0.0, I've used truetype fonts for three > > months now, you need also truetype capable X server. > > Ohh, so that's also an item, a truetype capable X server! Do you know > what servers are ttf aware? I tried it with the standard SVGA that comes > with XFree86. I had some real hard X crashes, som maybe I'll have to > switch to something else. You have two variants, one in ports/x11/XttXF* series of X servers and the other one address http://math.missouri.edu/~stephen/software/. The latter address contains binaries for 2.2.x and 3.x series and should be usable for -current also (I've used the 3.0 SVGA server under -current). The ttmkfdir command emits fonts.scale file (ttmkfdir > fonts.scale) for the given directory, after creating fonts.scale use mkfontdir to create fonts.dir file. That's what I have done. You also have option to build the truetype capable X server yourself but this isn't trivial. Stephen has some instructions on the webpage. You need some truetype fonts and don't forget to add font directory to XF86Config file. -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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