[ale] Q: How to install ttf fonts in Linux

[Christopher R. Curzio]

Yikes. Sorry about the lack-of-wrapping. I have (hopefully) fixed it by
now. (GTK+ has strange text wrapping settings, at least, in this e-mail
client anyway. Scary.)

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Christopher R. Curzio
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Thus Spake "Christopher R. Curzio" <ale at accipiter.org>:
Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:22:46 -0500


> Chris,
> 
> Assuming you're using a recent version of X (4.x), here's how to do it.
> (4.x comes with built-in TTF support, but it's not like Windows where
> you can plug it in and it will go. It is really easy to do, however.)
> 
> First, edit your XF86Config file, and look for the "FontPath" entries.
> Add the line: 
> 
> 	FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF" (or wherever your TTF
> 	fonts are located.)
> 
> Once you have that line in the config, you need to ttmkfdir to generate
> the fonts.scale and fonts.dir files. If you don't have it, get it here:
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttmkfdir/?topic_id=850
> 
> If already have it, skip this step. Edit the Makefile entries for
> freetype. (I know what they are for Slackware, but not Mandrake.) Build
> ttmkfdir using "make", and copy the resulting binary to somewhere in
> your path. 
> 
> Go back to your TTF directory, and run: 
> 
> 	ttmkfdir > fonts.scale
> 	ln -s fonts.scale fonts.dir
> 
> Restart X, and voila! Enjoy.
> 
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> Christopher R. Curzio
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> 
> 
> Thus Spake "Chris Woodruff" <cwoodruff at openpenguin.com>:
> Fri, 5 Apr 2002 09:00:31 -0500
> 
> 
> > I grabbed a bunch of new truetype fonts (*.ttf) and placed them in the
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF.  I retarted X and then brought up gimp
> > and found that none of the new fonts are seen by gimp.
> > 
> > I am using Mandrake 8.2.  Any help in getting X to see the new fonts
> > would be helpful.
> > 
> > Chris Woodruff
> > 
> > 
> > 
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