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<title>TrueType Fonts with XFree86 4.0.x mini-HOWTO
<author>Bartek Kostrzewa, <tt/bartek@pt.lu/
<date>0.0.3, 2001-02-21

<abstract>
This mini-HOWTO describes how to use TrueType (*.ttf) fonts with
XFree86 4.0.x.
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<sect>Introduction

<sect1>Copyright

<p>
Download, copy and redistribute this text freely. If you do any
changes, please submit them to me, and I will pass them to the LDP,
of course, credit will be given.

Copyright (c) 2001 by Bartek Kostrzewa

<sect1>Disclaimer
<p>
Use the information in this document at your own risk. I disavow any
potential liability for the contents of this document. Use of the
concepts, examples, and/or other content of this document is entirely
at your own risk.

All copyrights are owned by their owners, unless specifically noted
otherwise.  Use of a term in this document should not be regarded as
affecting the validity of any trademark or service mark.

Naming of particular products or brands should not be seen as endorsements.

You are strongly recommended to take a backup of your system before
major installation and backups at regular intervals.

<sect1>News
<p>
<itemize>
<item>0.0.3: Due to possible legal problems some modifications were done.
<item>0.0.2: This release cleans up some errors I wrote about Netscape font scaling.
<item>0.0.1: Initial release.
</itemize>

This document can be found at:
<url url="http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-XFree86.html">

<sect1>Credits
<p>
I'd like to thank Bear Giles for his Debian TTF howto which brought
me on the right path :o).

Of course, credit should also go to the XFree86 crew for the enormous effort of maintaining XFree86, and Joerg Pommnitz for writing <tt>ttmkfdir</tt>.

Also I'd like to pass a BIG big thank you to the LDP for building and
maintaining a network of helping hands which already guided many
people through the hard to overcome the learning curve Linux has.

Thanks to Joe Meadows for notifying me that this howto probably described 
an illegal act in version 0.0.2 and earlier.

<sect1>Translations
<p>
I currently don't know of any translations of this mini-HOWTO, if you want
to make one, just do it and either submit it yourself, or send it to me and
I will credit you and publish it.

Any comments or suggestions can be mailed to my mail address:
<htmlurl url="mailto:bartek@pt.lu/"
    name="bartek@pt.lu">

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<sect>Procedure
<p>
Get a set of TrueType fonts (for example from one of the many sites
making fonts availiable for download) and do the following as 
root at the command line:

<itemize>
<item><tt>mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype</tt>
<item><tt>cp /home/joeuser/yourdownloaddirectory/*.ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype</tt>
<item><tt>cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype</tt>
<item><tt>ttmkfdir &gt; fonts.scale</tt>
<item><tt>mkfontdir</tt>
</itemize>

<p>
There you go. You will now have all of your TrueType fonts working. If 
you want to add fonts, just move/copy those [*.ttf files] into the 
aforementioned directory, and repeat the process. 

Netscape has problems with these fonts, you have to check the "Allow
Scaling" setting in the Fonts dialog, don't feel distracted by the fact 
that it only shows font sizes 0 and 12. Mozilla has no such problems. 
Opera neither.

The <tt>mkfontdir</tt> executable should be included with your 
XFree 4.0.x distribution.

If you are missing <tt>ttmkfdir</tt>, you can obtain it here:
<url url="http://www.joerg-pommnitz.de/TrueType/ttmkfdir.tar.gz">

The latest verion of XFree86 (currently 4.0.2) can be found at:
<url url="http://www.xfree86.org">

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