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-!TrueType Fonts with XFree86 4..x mini-HOWTO
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-!!!!TrueType Fonts with XFree86 4..x mini-HOWTO
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-!!Bartek Kostrzewa, bartek@pt.lu0..4, 2001-02-23
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-''This mini-HOWTO describes how to use !TrueType (*.ttf) fonts with
-XFree86 4..x.''
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-!!1. Introduction
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-*1.1 Copyright
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-*1.2 Disclaimer
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-*1.3 News
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-*1.4 Credits
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-*1.5 Translations
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-!!2. Procedure
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-!!1. Introduction
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-!!1.1 Copyright
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-Download, copy and redistribute this text freely. If you do any
-changes, please submit them to me, and I will pass them to the LDP,
-of course, credit will be given.
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-Copyright (c) 2001 by Bartek Kostrzewa
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-!!1.2 Disclaimer
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-Use the information in this document at your own risk. I disavow any
-potential liability for the contents of this document. Use of the
-concepts, examples, and/or other content of this document is entirely
-at your own risk.
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-All copyrights are owned by their owners, unless specifically noted
-otherwise. Use of a term in this document should not be regarded as
-affecting the validity of any trademark or service mark.
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-Naming of particular products or brands should not be seen as endorsements.
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-You are strongly recommended to take a backup of your system before
-major installation and backups at regular intervals.
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-!!1.3 News
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-*..4: Some content added, explaining how to add fontpath's to the XF86Config.
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-*..3: Due to possible legal problems some modifications were done.
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-*..2: This release cleans up some errors I wrote about Netscape font scaling.
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-*..1: Initial release.
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-This document can be found at:
-http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-XFree86.html
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-!!1.4 Credits
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-I'd like to thank Bear Giles for his Debian TTF howto which brought
-me on the right path :o).
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-Of course, credit should also go to the XFree86 crew for the enormous
-effort of maintaining XFree86, and Joerg Pommnitz for writing ttmkfdir.
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-Also I'd like to pass a BIG big thank you to the LDP for building and
-maintaining a network of helping hands which already guided many
-people through the hard to overcome the learning curve Linux has.
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-Thanks to Joe Meadows for notifying me that this howto probably described
-an illegal act in version ..2 and earlier.
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-!!1.5 Translations
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-I currently don't know of any translations of this mini-HOWTO, if you want
-to make one, just do it and either submit it yourself, or send it to me and
-I will credit you and publish it.
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-Any comments or suggestions can be mailed to my mail address:
-bartek@pt.lu
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-!!2. Procedure
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-Get a set of !TrueType fonts (for example from one of the many sites
-making fonts availiable for download) and do the following as
-root at the command line:
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-*mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype
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-*cp /home/joeuser/yourdownloaddirectory/*.ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype
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-*cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype
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-*ttmkfdir > fonts.scale
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-*mkfontdir
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-Now if you have a working installation of Windows on one of your partitions,
-you must use the fonts directly from there, copying them to a directory of
-your Linux partition is considered *illegal*. First read up on how to get
-your windows partition detected and working in Linux (most distributions do
-that at installation time, and by default), then as root do the following:
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-*cd /etc/X11
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-*your-favourite-editor XF86Config In some X
-distributions this file is used with a number added to it (for
-example: XF86Config.4). You will have to find out which file
-your X11R6 uses. You can do this by typing: less /var/log/XFree86*
-and then instead edit the file stated in the log.
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-*
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-*Now, in the editor find the section Files and the lines
-with !FontPath, just add
-!FontPath "/yourwinpartition/windows/fonts/"
-at the bottom of this list.
-(yourwinpartition must be replaced with the mount point of
-your windows partition)
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-*cd /winpartition/windows/fonts
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-*ttmkfdir > fonts.scale
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-*mkfontdir
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-This will make all the fonts on your Windows partition work correctly in X.
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-There you go. You will now have all of your !TrueType fonts working. If
-you want to add fonts, just move/copy those
[[*.ttf files
] into the
-aforementioned directory, and repeat the process.
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-Netscape has problems with these fonts, you have to check the "Allow
-Scaling" setting in the Fonts dialog, don't feel distracted by the fact
-that it only shows font sizes 0 and 12. Mozilla has no such problems.
-Opera neither.
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-The mkfontdir executable should be included with your
-XFree 4..x distribution.
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-If you are missing ttmkfdir, you can obtain it
here:
-http://www.joerg-pommnitz.de/!TrueType/ttmkfdir.tar.gz
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-The latest verion of XFree86 (currently 4..2) can be found at:
-http://www.xfree86
.org
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+Describe
[HowToTTXFree86
] here.
