Re: True Type Fonts.

[Jose L Gomez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

Hi!
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 07:43:11PM +0100, Ian W. Wright wrote:
>
> I'm new to this group and pretty new to linux and, whilst I have become
> a fan on linux, my brain is beginning to ache! I'm trying to sort out
> how to enable true-type font support but seem to have come up against
> the 'instructions written by an expert' problem and I could do with a
> bit of help written in simple English explaining just how to go about
> it. I have downloaded Freetype 1.1.1,
> xfsft-1_1_6_linux-i386-libc6_tar.gz and ttmkfdir_tar.gz but I'm finding

To be honest, all this business of downloading tar.gz files is very
nice if you want to alter the source code, but if you're using RH5.2,
chances are that rpm'd versions of those programs exist. I know about xfstt
is available as an rpm. I know it is availabe as a .deb package, so if you
can't find it, I could translate the .deb into an rpm and mail it over. On
the other hand, you don't need to recompile libc6 (this is already installed
by default; it is the common C library). In particular, the debian package
of xsftt does not require any other package (apart from the usual stuff,
libc6 and libstdc++) to run.

Ooops, just realized we're not talking of the same stuff here. You
mention xsfst and I mention xfstt. Nearly the same, but not quite. If I were
you, I'd go for xfstt, which does not need any special requirements.
Apparently, it's easy to compile. Give it a try under
http://web.mit.edu/sarantos/.

Let us know how you're getting on!


> difficulty in working out just how I need to alter the Makefile's or
> whatever to install things on my system and whether or not I then have
> to add something in to rc.local to initialise it each time I log on. I'm

That's the beauty of pre-packaged software :)))

Regards,
Jose
--
Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student
Radar Communications Group
Department of Electronic Engineering
University of Sheffield UK

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