Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-23 Thread Christoph Blank
Hi, Most of my TrueType fonts are working but I got a unusual problem. Some of the fonts are not displayed correctly, if I type "abcd" I can see just squares instead of the characters. The weird thing is, if I select those squares, and paste them into a console, I can see the normal characters. Wha

Re: Fonts and XFree86 SOLVED

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 16:13, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Monday 20 May 2002 19:31, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > > > It appears that the problem isn't with XFree86 but perhaps with KDE? > > > > > > Does xfontsel display the truetype fonts? What does xlsfonts say? (Please > > > for the love of God and m

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-20 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 20 May 2002 19:31, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > It appears that the problem isn't with XFree86 but perhaps with KDE? > > > > Does xfontsel display the truetype fonts? What does xlsfonts say? (Please > > for the love of God and my mailbox, don't attach the xlsfonts output ;-) > > ) > > Why

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 12:44, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Monday 20 May 2002 16:28, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > But I've now discovered that something funky is going on. > > > > Under Openoffice, the truetype fonts are available. They aren't > > available anywhere else I've found. I'm running KDE 2.

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-20 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 20 May 2002 16:28, Daniel D Jones wrote: > But I've now discovered that something funky is going on. > > Under Openoffice, the truetype fonts are available. They aren't > available anywhere else I've found. I'm running KDE 2. The fonts > aren't available under the ControlCenter. They

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-20 Thread Brian Stults
steev wrote: Anything's worth a shot at this point. Unfortunately, changing the order had no effect. But I've now discovered that something funky is going on. Under Openoffice, the truetype fonts are available. They aren't available anywhere else I've found. I'm running KDE 2. The fonts

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 12:17, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:26:16PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 15:24, Dale Hair wrote: > > > I believe truetype fonts would not load on mine until I moved the > > > truetype fontpath lines to the beginning of the section.

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-20 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:26:16PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 15:24, Dale Hair wrote: > > I believe truetype fonts would not load on mine until I moved the > > truetype fontpath lines to the beginning of the section. My X11Config-4 > > is probably not ideal but I'm satisf

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-20 Thread steev
> Anything's worth a shot at this point. Unfortunately, changing the > order had no effect. > > But I've now discovered that something funky is going on. > > Under Openoffice, the truetype fonts are available. They aren't > available anywhere else I've found. I'm running KDE 2. The fonts >

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 07:36, Nicos Gollan wrote: > I don't have them either and it works wonderfully. However (again) I'm > running > 4.2.0, but that shouldn't matter all too much since they didn't change that > part of the system AFAIK. I had 4.1.0 running before and I don't remember > those m

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-20 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 19 May 2002 23:26, Daniel D Jones wrote: > On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 15:24, Dale Hair wrote: > > I believe truetype fonts would not load on mine until I moved the > > truetype fontpath lines to the beginning of the section. My X11Config-4 > > is probably not ideal but I'm satisfied with it f

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-19 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 15:24, Dale Hair wrote: > I believe truetype fonts would not load on mine until I moved the > truetype fontpath lines to the beginning of the section. My X11Config-4 > is probably not ideal but I'm satisfied with it for now. I'm open to > critique. I have my truetypes in /u

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-19 Thread Dale Hair
> > I've removed xfs, xfstt and xfs-xtt, all three of which were running. > I've verified that the correct path is in XF86Config-4, checked > /var/log/XFree86.0.log to ensure that the path is not being barfed out > and that the freetype module is being loaded, verified the presence of > fonts.di

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-19 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 11:05, Shadowdancer wrote: > On Sunday 19 May 2002 04:31, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > I have xfs-ttf installed and running. ps aux verifies it's there and > > running on port 7110. I have unix/:7110 in my XF86Config-4 file, as > > well as the direct font paths. xf's log fi

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-19 Thread Shadowdancer
On Sunday 19 May 2002 04:31, Daniel D Jones wrote: > I have xfs-ttf installed and running. ps aux verifies it's there and > running on port 7110. I have unix/:7110 in my XF86Config-4 file, as > well as the direct font paths. xf's log file verifies that the font > path is being set - none of the

Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-18 Thread Daniel D Jones
Can someone give me a hint or a pointer to info on troubleshooting fonts under xf86? Running xf 4.1.0.1 under testing. I have only a few fonts available: Bitstream Charter, Courier, Courier 10 pitch, three varieties of Lucidux and Utopia. There are 1879 files located in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dp

Re: truetype fonts and xfree86 4

2000-06-30 Thread kmself
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:32:12PM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote: > i installed the pre-compiled xfree86 4 binaries from ftp.xfree86.org on > a woody system, and have a > >Load "freetype" > > line in my /etc/X11/XF86Setup. it all works perfectly except xlsfonts > doesn't load Truetype fonts,

truetype fonts and xfree86 4

2000-06-29 Thread Vincent Murphy
i installed the pre-compiled xfree86 4 binaries from ftp.xfree86.org on a woody system, and have a Load "freetype" line in my /etc/X11/XF86Setup. it all works perfectly except xlsfonts doesn't load Truetype fonts, and so i can't use them in gimp/netscape etc either. what do i have to do to