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Re: True Type font support - and a vmware note...



On Sun, 4 Jul 1999 (which was quite a while ago), Asher Frenkel wrote:

> the font server shipped with redhat 6.0 support truetype fonts,
> to add them do the following steps:
> 1. mkdir /usr/lib/X11/fonts/truetype and put your truetype fonts in there
> 2. cd /usr/lib/X11/fonts/truetype
> 3. ttmkfdir >fonts.scale
> 4. mkfontdir
> 5. chkfontpath --add /usr/lib/X11/fonts/truetype
> 
> I think you should restart X for this to take effect, but anyway try with
> xlsfonts to see if the truetype fonts are available for you.

I followed these instructions and restarted everything, but xlsfonts
does not show any of the TrueType fonts. Any idea what I could be
missing?

Running RedHat 6.1.

  Regards,
    Eran Tromer

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