Installing truetype fonts

[Joel Hammer]

OK. I will try the ttmkfdir first.
Now, if I run ttmkfdir -h, I get this as output:

This Program is (C) Joerg Pommnitz, 1998
Usage: ttmkfdir [-d dir] [-o filename] [-f foundry] [-m #]
   -d scan directory dir for TrueType files (def. is current directory)
   -o write output to file named filename (def. stdout)
   -f use foundry for unknown font vendors (def. misc)
   -m max # of missing characters per encoding (def. 5)
   -c use less strict completeness tests for encoding tables
   -p use panose information 

The output of ttmkfdir is a bunch of font specifications:
arialn.ttf -monotype-Arial Narrow-medium-r-condensed--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-ru 
How am I supposed to use this output? Doesn't there have to be a fontmap so
the fonts can be found by a program?

What is panose information?

Thanks,
Joel

       
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 09:04:00PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> 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.
> -- 
> Collins Richey - Denver Area
> if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the 
> worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
> 
> 
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