Doug McGarrett wrote:

I tried to post this the other nite, but never saw it, so I'll send it again:

I think I remember seeing (quite a while ago, and probably on some other list) how one could set up a link to the TT fonts on a Windows partition, rather than copying them over to the Linux partition. If that's possible, what should the link look like and what directory should it be in, if it matters. (I know what links do, I just don't know how to work them.)

TIA --doug

you can link to the fonts by symbolic links. I would create one link per font file. You need two further files, fonts.dir and fonts.scale in that dir. They are created with ttmkfdir (If I remember correct) They are both (almost) the same, fints.scale misses the first line that's in fonts.dir. create a dir /usr/local/fonts/truetype I assume your win partition mounted. cd to your win ttf dir run for ii in *.ttf do ln -s $ii /usr/local/fonts/truetype/$ii done after that, cd to /usr/local/fonts/truetype and run "ttmkfdir > fonts.dir". create fonts.scale (as stated above). I think SuSE 7.1 / 7.0 has some stuff to make live easier with ttf's. I did all this in the old days, memory is a bit weak, I would need to dig deeper. Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\