[GLLUG] true type fonts ?

[Matt Graham]

On Friday 17 October 2003 01:01, after a long battle with technology, 
Mark Tarquini wrote:
> Is it possible for windows true type fonts to work in linux?
> If it is possible has anyone done it?  have any recommendations?

Yes, yes, and "fetchmsttfonts".  That's a small shell script that 
downloads the "core Web fonts" (including the 
never-to-be-sufficiently-damned 'Comic Sans') from Microsoft, puts them 
in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype , goes to that directory, runs 
ttmkfdir , then does "xset fp rehash".  You can do all that manually by 
copying the .ttf files to that directory and running "ttmkfdir && xset 
fp rehash".  Note that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype has to be in 
the font path, like so:

# in /etc/X11/XF86Config
Section "Files"
   FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype"
[...]
EndSection

There's also a font installer in recent KDE builds.  I've never used 
this though.

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