RH 8 font problem

[Aaron Grewell]

FWIW, my ttf's have mixed case and it seems to make no difference so
far.

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 14:25, Brad De Vries wrote:
> 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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