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Date:      Sun, 23 May 2010 21:04:46 +0300
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: using TTF fonts in X
Message-ID:  <AANLkTinxr1FjWE7DIi2JRqymvPpzsv1UdSFaZPiNlVRl@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201005231856.26490.tijl@coosemans.org>
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On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 23 May 2010 18:46:38 Eitan Adler wrote:
>> I have a folder with a bunch of TTF fonts.
>> when I run mkfontdir the fonts.dir file is just a "0"
>> and when I run xset +fp . I get
>> % xset +fp .
>> xset: =C2=A0bad font path element (#23), possible causes are:
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Directory missing fonts.dir
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Incorrect font server address or syntax
>> % cat fonts.dir
>> 0
>> % ls -laod . fonts.dir
>> drwxr-xr-x =C2=A02 eitan =C2=A0eitan =C2=A0- 14336 May 23 18:54:55 2010 =
./
>> -rw-r--r-- =C2=A01 eitan =C2=A0eitan =C2=A0- =C2=A0 =C2=A0 2 May 23 18:5=
5:32 2010 fonts.dir
>
> For TTF fonts you have to create a fonts.scale file first. Check the mkfo=
ntdir(1) and mkfontscale(1) manpages.
>

Thanks for that.
In order to complete the xset +fp I needed to use the absolute dir
name as well.
The issue has been solved - thanks.








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