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



On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
Hi, your return address is munged, please fix it.


> I got 2 questions (if you don't mind):
> 
> 1. Redhat 6.0 got this X font server (XFS) - what is it and why do I
> need it? can I use it with True Type fonts from Windows?

X font server purpose is to allow remote X server to use fonts which
reside on the font server machine. 
and yes, 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.

--Asher 


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