[PLUG] TrueType fonts

[patrick.t.finnegan.1]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 cirillo@purdue.edu wrote:

>
> > From: Kurt Stutsman <kurt@mujido.dnsalias.org>
> >
> > Hello. I have a few TrueType fonts I would like to add to the font server
> > in X. I run on RH 7.1 machine with the default xfs and KDE. Any help would
> > be appreciated
>
> You can put all those fonts into their own directory somewhere and then add
> that directory to the xfs config file. On my RH7 system the xfs
> config file is /etc/X11/fs/config. Not sure if it is always in that exact
> location in every distro. There will be a section in the config file labeled
> catalogue, which already has the paths to the other fonts that X is using. Just
> add your new path to the TT fonts, save the file, restart xfs, and the fonts
> will be available to whatever apps know how to use them.

The proper way to do this is documented in the "README.fonts" file
distributed with XFree86.  I'm they also have a copy on their web site:

http://xfree86.org/4.1.0/fonts.html

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