Re: making more fonts available

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 10:04:34PM +0000, Will Newton wrote:
> If you want Windows (TrueType) fonts to be available to you find a TT font
> server (xfstt is one, and there is at least one other). SuSE may install
> one by default (AFAIK RH 6.2 does), but if it doesn't look on freshmeat for
> xfstt and get it installed, mount your Windows partition (If you have one,
> otherwise just get c:\windows\fonts\*) and point the font server at
> the Windows fonts. That should work. :)
> Setting up XFree is something of a black art though...

	I am using it at the moment from debian. Quite easy to install
and get running, you just need to run it with the --sync option to
locate all the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype (symlink your windows
ttf directory if you have a windoze partition). Start the server with
xfstt, and add unix/:7101 to your font path in /etc/X11/XF86Config (you
can even try it within X: start the server, and then type xset fp+
unix/:7101, and then use xfontsel to have a look at the true type fonts.
Honest, is dead easy!
	Regards,
	José
-- 
José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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