----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald Verlaan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter Whysall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian User Mailinglist" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 9:35 PM Subject: Re: true type fonts won't work...
> On 16 Jun 2002, Peter Whysall wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > Any hints? > > > > Are you loading the "freetype" module in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ? > Yes I did :P > Thanx anyway! > Hi! Another very easy way is installing xfstt and placing your truetype fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype, adding unix:/7100 (besides unix:/7101 for xfs, I think) to the FontPath in XF86Config-4. Then install ttmkfdir and tetex-bin and a package containing "mkfontdir" (i.e. xutils, I think (again *g*)). Go to the directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype, call the script in the first chapter of this howto: http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/howto/HOWTO/TT-Debian/TT-Debian-5.html , call ttmkfdir > fonts.scale , call mkfontdir and look if ./fonts.dir contains the font names ;). Then call xfstt --sync . Your fonts should be available to X now. (after a restart of your X server). Finally, you should make your fonts available for printing (gs), as described in http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/howto/HOWTO/TT-Debian/TT-Debian-4.html ; you should only take care for where your gs Fontmap actually is (I think it's now somewhere else than in /etc, see dpkg -S *Fontmap* for the right location), and change the line xfstt --gslist --sync >> /etc/gs.Fontmap accordingly. The author of the howto describes, that one should edit the Fontmap file manually afterwards. That's right. If gs cannot find a font in - for example a kde document whcih you want to print - , though, and uses the default font instead, the following way helped at my machine (if I remember correctly): 1) Force printing to ps. 2) Call gs <psfile> 3) Watch gs output: It will say which font it does not find. 4) Take a look at <psfile> with an editor and search for the font definition of the font not found - you will find that the spelling differs slightly from the one at your Fontmap or so. 5) Put a new alias in your Fontmap which "maps the different spelling" to the one you've used in your Fontmap before. Aliases work like this: /Arial /MS-Arial ; means: use previously defined font MS-Arial for Arial, if Arial is requested by a document. (For further information: The whole howto is at: http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/howto/HOWTO/TT-Debian/ ). Cheers, Stephan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
