TrueType Fonts with XFree86 4.0.x mini-HOWTO
 Bartek Kostrzewa, [email protected]
 0.0.4, 2001-02-23

 This mini-HOWTO describes how to use TrueType (*.ttf) fonts with
 XFree86 4.0.x.
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 Table of Contents


 1. Introduction

    1.1 Copyright
    1.2 Disclaimer
    1.3 News
    1.4 Credits
    1.5 Translations

 2. Procedure



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 1.  Introduction

 1.1.  Copyright

 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.

 Copyright (c) 2001 by Bartek Kostrzewa


 1.2.  Disclaimer

 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.

 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.

 Naming of particular products or brands should not be seen as
 endorsements.

 You are strongly recommended to take a backup of your system before
 major installation and backups at regular intervals.


 1.3.  News


 �  0.0.4: Some content added, explaining how to add fontpath's to the
    XF86Config.

 �  0.0.3: Due to possible legal problems some modifications were done.

 �  0.0.2: This release cleans up some errors I wrote about Netscape
    font scaling.


 �  0.0.1: Initial release.

 This document can be found at: <http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-
 XFree86.html>


 1.4.  Credits

 I'd like to thank Bear Giles for his Debian TTF howto which brought me
 on the right path :o).

 Of course, credit should also go to the XFree86 crew for the enormous
 effort of maintaining XFree86, and Joerg Pommnitz for writing
 ttmkfdir.

 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.

 Thanks to Joe Meadows for notifying me that this howto probably
 described an illegal act in version 0.0.2 and earlier.


 1.5.  Translations

 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.

 Any comments or suggestions can be mailed to my mail address:
 [email protected]



 2.  Procedure

 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:


 �  mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype

 �  cp /home/joeuser/yourdownloaddirectory/*.ttf
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype

 �  cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype

 �  ttmkfdir > fonts.scale

 �  mkfontdir


 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:


 �  cd /etc/X11

 �  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.

 �  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)

 �  cd /winpartition/windows/fonts

 �  ttmkfdir > fonts.scale

 �  mkfontdir

 This will make all the fonts on your Windows partition work correctly
 in X.


 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.

 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.

 The mkfontdir executable should be included with your XFree 4.0.x
 distribution.

 If you are missing ttmkfdir, you can obtain it here:
 <http://www.joerg-pommnitz.de/TrueType/ttmkfdir.tar.gz>

 The latest verion of XFree86 (currently 4.0.2) can be found at:
 <http://www.xfree86.org>

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