RH 8 font problem

[Brad De Vries]

Tim, two quick questions:
1) I seem to remember that either chkfontdir or
ttmkfdir could only handle fonts with lowercase names.
 When you copied the fonts from Windows, did the newly
created font files contain uppercase letters?

2) Again, IIRC, the ttmkfdir command only created the
fonts.scale file and mkfontdir command created the
fonts.dir.  Do you have both of these files and do
they look okay?

Brad.
--- Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
> I've been trying to troubleshoot a problem with
> TrueType fonts and RH 8. I *had* TrueType fonts
> sorta working, but was getting occasional crashes of
> XFS (x font server). After playing with the system
> over the weeked, I mananged to find a way to crash
> xfs 100% of the time. All I needed to do was try to
> change fonts in an OOo document.
> 
> In order to try and rectify the problem once and for
> all, I decided to try to uninstall the TTF's and
> re-install them according to
>
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/ref-guide/s1-x-fonts.html
> 
> In the process of doing this, I ran into this known
> bug,
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77272
> which indicates a problem that ttmkfdir has with bad
> ttf fonts. So I managed to find a set of fonts, thru
> the process of elimination, that ttmkfdir liked, but
> I'm still having problems.
> 
> I installed my "good" fonts into
> /usr/share/fonts/TrueType
> I then ran ttmkfdir to create the fonts.dir and
> fonts.scale files.
> I then ran chkfontdir --add
> /usr/share/fonts/TrueType and
> chkfontdir --list to make sure the directory got
> listed.
> I then ran /sbin/service xfs restart to reload the
> new fonts
> 
> But, when I ran xlsfonts, none of the new fonts were
> listed. I've since tried to install only a single
> font in the /usr/share/fonts/TrueType directory,
> comic.ttf, but even that seems to be failing. 
> 
> And there's more puzzling stuff...
> OOo seems to see the TTF fonts, now, despite them
> not being seen by xlsfonts. I just started OOo
> remotely and al the previously installed TTF's
> appear to be available. Damn peculiar. Where does
> OOo find fonts? It's listing ALL the TTF's I *had*
> installed, even though they shouldn't *be* instaled
> anymore (cuz I'm only trying to get the 1 font to be
> seen by xlsfonts). I originally had the fonts
> installed in 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType, but have since
> removed that directory.
> 
> I'm getting close to being at my wit's end on this.
> Anybody have a large clue stick they can hit me
> with?
> 
> Thanks, 
> Tim
> 
> 
> 
> 
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