Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 06:35:52 -0500 From: Stephen Pitts <smpitts@midsouth.rr.com> To: freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: installing xfstt on new 3.3 install question Message-ID: <19990924063551.B47489@ender.midsouth.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <NDBBKJIFGLEEKMALCMJMGEJMCBAA.francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com> References: <NDBBKJIFGLEEKMALCMJMGEJMCBAA.francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com>
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On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 10:04:31PM -0700, Francis J. Bruening wrote: > Hello, > > I'm following the INSTALL doc for xfstt .9.10. I installed > the package from the 3.3 ISO image. > > It says to put some .ttf fonts into /usr/ttfonts. > > when I issue a 'xfstt --sync' command, I get the follwing error > message : /usr/x11R6/lib/X11/font/TrueType not found... For me, I just linked /win98/WINDOWS/FONTS (the fonts directory on my windows drive) to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/font/Truetype, but just creating this directory and shoving some TTF files in it should be fine. > > Is the doc out of sync with the binary for this? If I remember > playing with xfstt a while back on SuSE linux, the fonts went > some other place than /usr/ttfonts... From an investigation inside the source (/usr/ports/x11-servers/Xfstt) patch-ab in the patches directory changes the default font directory from /usr/ttfonts to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/font/Truetype. Ask the ports maintainer :-) > > 1) What should I do to get xfstt working? > 2) Is there an alternative to get TT support that I'm not aware of? > Yep, you can compile TTF support directly into the X server using one of the /usr/ports/x11-server/XttXF86-srv-* packages. I've already rebuild X from source once (needed it to build the GLX module for my TNT2), and I'd say that xfstt is much easier to get. -- Stephen Pitts smpitts@midsouth.rr.com webmaster - http://www.mschess.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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