On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 20:12, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:31:50PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > On Thursday 28 August 2003 04:43, Robert Storey wrote: > > > I upgraded to Sid. Mozilla, which previously had bitmapped fonts, now > > > has > > > TrueType fonts - apt-get dist-upgrade" seems to have handled this > > > automagically . That's great, but Konqueror, Kmail, and Sylpheed (among > > > others) are still stuck in bitmap mode. > > > > Two things: > > > > Mozilla has its own font handling (via FreeType) while QT (and thus KDE) and > > other X applications use the X font system. > > This isn't true anymore. Qt (and KDE) in Sid use fontconfig to get > their fonts. Now you'll need to add a <dir>/foo/bar</dir> entry to > /etc/fonts/local.conf telling fontconfig where to find your TrueType > fonts. > > Just to complicate things, if you install "mozilla-xft" then Mozilla > will use fontconfig, as well. > > > Depending on your setup, you'll > > have to make sure that X knows about the fonts. If you don't see the fonts > > with xfontsel, have a look at your /etc/XF86Config-4 and check if the font > > path is set correctly. If so, you might have to recreate the font index in > > the directory the TT fonts are installed. > > xfontsel will tell you if your fonts are available as "X core fonts", > which GTK1.2, Qt2.2 and most older X apps use. "fc-list" will list > fonts available to the fontconfig system (and apps using it). > > > If X knows about the fonts but any QT based application fails to see them, > > edit the file ~/.qt/qtrc and set the variables useXft and enableXft to > > 'false'. This seems to be a bug in QT. > > Not sure about this bit, but I've certainly had KDE3 and GNOME2 and > Mozilla (with mozilla-xft) all have access to my fonts without editing > anything aside from the fontconfig config file.
I got true type fonts working without touching the fontconfig config file actually. Added the directory under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ and put the truetype fonts into it. I then built the fonts.dir using mkttfdir (fttools package) and linked fonts.scale to it. I then added the directory to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. (I think that loading the freefont package is necessary). All my x progs seem to recognize the truetype fonts without problem, including fc-list. I used my M$ fonts for this (regrettably the laptop came preinstalled with XP home. -- Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
