I've successfully upgraded from Suse 6.3 to Suse 7.0 and want to start
using some of the truetype fonts I was using with XFree 3 with the new
XFree 4. However, I can't seem to get them installed. The installation is
a pristine Suse 7 system straight out of the box.
 

Credit goes to previous poster, Naurgrim <naurgrim@karn.org>, not to me.

fx

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, fx wrote:
>
> How do you uses TTF in Xfree 4?
>
> I have just upgraded from a SuSE 6.3 installation with xfstt. I have
> read this was not needed anymore since Xfree 4 included a ttf server.
> But how do you configure it?

This one's still fresh in my mind, as I went to 7.0 and XFree86 4 over the
weekend.

Here's a compressed, and somewhat incomplete, version:

dump your *.ttf's into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype, or make a new
directory. I did /usr/local/fonts. Whatever.

Make sure that your /etcX11/XF86Config has a FontPath line for this directory.

Goto this directory, and run "ttmkfdir > fonts.scale" and "mkfontdir". These
will create your fonts.scale and fonts.dir files.

Get a useable fonts.alias file together. I cheated, I grabbed one from:

http://www.hazalthorn.freeserve.co.uk/TrueType.html

- which is where I puzzled this out.  His page is geared towards 6.4, so you
don't have to worry about building ttmkfdir and mkfontdir from source, as 7.0
has 'em, or using xfsft, as Xfree86 4 takes care of it. He also has good tips on
making Netscape (sweeeet) and SO use TrueTypes.

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