Installing truetype fonts

[Collins Richey]

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:33:19 -0400
Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> I want to install some truetype fonts.
> 
> I have XFree86 Version 4.0.1 I have an old version of KDE. Version 2
> or something. This version of KDE came with Caldera 2.4. I cannot tell
>  for
> sure because the about KDE menu doesn't give the version.
> 
> I have some true type fonts already installed, I think, made available
> through fontfs.  But, these fonts don't seem to include anything
> useful, like ariel.
> 
> I have a bunch of fonts from a windows installation I want to use.
> Is there a way to just convert these to a form that I can reference
> with fontfs?
> 

I don't know enough about the older systems and fontfs, but basically
all you need to do is:

1. copy all the fonts to a directory
2. run ttmkfdir in that directory
3. update your XF86Config
4. do whatever black magic with fontfs???
5. On newer software, you need to run fc-cache
6. Restart your Xserver
7. Update any other apps that need special handling.

If you don't have a Windows distro handy, you can follow the
instructions at the following site to get the core tt fonts from M$
(supposedly this is legal).  The instructions are extremely RH centric,
but a little tinkering will make this work for any distro.

 http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

Much luck.
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Collins Richey - Denver Area
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