On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 04:05:24AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Under potato, I've installed xfs-xtt. > > Are there any stock means to create fonts.dir in a directory with ttf > fonts? The documentation that comes with xfs-xtt says nothing of this.
it probably does, in japenese ;-) > I tried getting mkttfdir, which is part of perlftlib-1.2.tar.gz, > available from http://www.io.com/~kazushi/xtt/#perlftlib, but it won't > compile... and mkttfdir.pl doesn't work, saying mkttfdir.pl doesn't > exist. ;^( there is mkttfdir in fttools package. > Another question: Once I create fonts.dir, are there any other steps > to configure the font server to use the ttf fonts? i wnat to know this too, i installed xfs-xtt and used the above tool on a couple fonts i got from MS' gratis fonts page, and they showed up and were usable in netscape. but these were not enough fonts so i nabbed all the fonts from NT 4 and used the same utility which generated the fonts.dir file just fine it looks like, but now none of them are available for use in X, only the original X bitmapped fonts :( i cannot find any difference, except that this time i did not fix all the ugly MSDOS 8.3 filenames to lowercase but i don't see how that would matter. (its amazing even with a somewhat advanced filesystem like NTFS that you still end up with fscking 8.3 filenames when you archive files...) -- Ethan Benson
