[PLUG] truetype font help
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at attbi.com
Tue Sep 10 13:22:15 UTC 2002
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> I've followed the TTF installation instructions in the latter
> document to the letter (as far as I know). I restart xfs, do `xset
> fp rehash' (which I got from the former doc---may not be needed) and
> bring up "gfontsel".
>
> I see the names of the M$ TTF fonts. For example, there's Tahoma
> and "trebuchet ms" and "ms outhouse" (I mean "outlook").
>
> But when I click on any of them (say Tahoma) I get
>
> "The selected font is not available"
>
> in the window where the font should display.
It sounds like you've tried everything I would, but just in case
there's a detail missing, here's what has worked for me (Red
Hat 7.x, XFree86 4.x):
* copy .ttf files into /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType
* cd into that directory and do
/usr/bin/ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale
/bin/cp fonts.scale fonts.dir
* restart xfs
--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>
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