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Date:      Fri, 25 Dec 2015 05:13:08 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
To:        Robert Ames <robertames@hotmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: fonts.dir for TrueType fonts
Message-ID:  <20151225051308.004d8a5c@X220.alogt.com>
In-Reply-To: <BLU177-W405013A3DC6434EE436C31C9E70@phx.gbl>
References:  <BLU177-W405013A3DC6434EE436C31C9E70@phx.gbl>

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Hi,

On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 10:25:14 -0500
Robert Ames <robertames@hotmail.com> wrote:

> In the Handbook, under section "5.5.2. TrueType Fonts" it states:
> 
> > Once the files have been copied into this directory, use ttmkfdir
> > to create a fonts.dir, so that the X font renderer knows that these
> > new files have been installed. ttmkfdir is available from the
> > FreeBSD Ports Collection as x11-fonts/ttmkfdir.  
>  
> ttmkdir is not in the current Ports Collection.  So how does one 
> create fonts.dir?
> 
I use these programs to achieve this:

mkfontscale
mkfontdir
xset fp rehash

> I'm assuming the Handbook is out of date so I guess what I'm really
> asking is how does one add TrueType fonts?
> 
It seems to be out of date.

Erich



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