MS Core Fonts

kipp · 01-06-2004, 06:59 AM

Hey guys and gals. Problem regarding the TTF fonts from MS. I have them installed, firebird, gAIM, and other apps can access the fonts. When trying to display the fonts in "xfontsel" they will not show up. I also tried to get Kahakai 0.6 and Fluxbox 0.9.7 to use Verdana as the menu font, and again, it did not work. I've looked everywhere but it seems I can only find information about installing the fonts. They are fuctional, just not completely fuctional. Thanks

Kipp

guygriffiths · 01-06-2004, 10:06 AM

OK, what did you do to install them?

Poprocks · 01-06-2004, 10:23 AM

The MS fonts are truetype fonts, not X11 core fonts. Only certain applications that are able to view them (such as GTK2 and QT3 apps, and OpenOffice.org software) will be able to use them.

kipp · 01-07-2004, 04:58 AM

hey. just a followup to your questions. I installed the fonts via this site: http://brendan.sdf-eu.org/articles/a...sing_slack.php. And as I said before, they do work in some apps, so I know they are installed and "working". And as a followup to Poprocks, thanks for informaing me. Maybe, I have just assumed something that wasnt true. Is there window managers that support these fonts? No big deal if not, I'll live with Type1.

Thanks kipp

guygriffiths · 01-07-2004, 05:29 AM

XFree is able to use truetype fonts as long as it's quite recent. Mine appear in xfontsel. I used the FDU howto (there is a link on that slackware page you linked to) and didn't have any problems. The only difference is that instead of using "ttmkfdir", use the command "mkfontscale". Make sure you've done everything on that page with regards to X, and it should work.

kipp · 01-07-2004, 07:31 AM

Thanks alot guygriffiths. That document is excatly what I needed. Just a few adjusments and now I'm set.

Cheers

Poprocks · 01-07-2004, 07:43 AM

Heh, I didn't know that... and since I'm running XF86 v4.4.0, I know I'll have some use for that. Thanks from me too, guygriffiths

guygriffiths · 01-07-2004, 09:23 AM

It is the HOWTO which I have used the most out of any, although it's slightly out of date, since recent mozilla builds do not need specific configuration, and don't work when you do it as per the HOWTO. Instead you edit /etc/fonts/local.conf (or /etc/fonts/fonts.conf if you don't have the other one) and add the directory containing the new ttfonts (<dir>/directory/of/truetype/fonts</dir>) then run fc-cache. That gets most things working with lovely fonts.