 | | | Serious font problems | Serious font problems 2002-05-08 - By Hal Burgiss
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On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 12:51:22AM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> >
> > Did you add them to xfs fontpath (chkfontpath)?
>
> No need, I put them in /usr/share/fonts/defaults/TrueType which is
> included by default.
>
> > Typically, mkfontdir creates fonts.dir, and ttmkfdir creates
> > fonts.scale (for scalable fonts). Not sure how bad it is if both don 't
> > exist. I believe the xfs init script should do all this *if* it knows
> > about the fonts. man chkfontpath.
>
> Well, for me at least, ttmkfdir was outputting the list to stdout, not to
> fonts.scale like the --help options and the man page both suggest. Strange
Sorry, that was too subtle:
[hal@(protected) hal]$ ttmkfdir -help
-o, --output name of the destination file, default is "fonts.scale "
You either need to redirect to a file or use the '-o ' option. I think
the wording is confusing. It doesn 't create a fonts.scale unless you
tell it too (I think they are _trying_ to say fonts.scale is what you
should be outputting to, not that it does it automatically).
> I admit, but since I 'm not very familiar with fonts, I just suppose I 'm
> missing something or doing something wrong.
> And nope, the xfs init script wasn 't rebuilding anything...
This is from 7.2:
[hal@(protected) hal]$ grep ttmkf /etc/init.d/xfs
ttmkfdir . >fonts.scale
You might make sure 7.3 is still doing something like that. And maybe
make sure the permissions on the font directory are writable by xfs
(probably running as user nobody).
--
Hal Burgiss
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