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<AuthorGroup>
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<Author>
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<Firstname>Doug</Firstname>
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<Surname>Holland</Surname>
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<Affiliation>
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<Address>
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<Email>meldroc@frii.com</Email>
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</Address>
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</Affiliation>
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</Author>
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<Author>
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<Firstname>Updated by: Hal</Firstname>
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<Firstname>Maintained by: Hal</Firstname>
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<Surname>Burgiss</Surname>
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<Affiliation>
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<Address>
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</Affiliation>
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</Author>
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<Author>
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<Firstname>Original Author: Doug</Firstname>
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<Surname>Holland</Surname>
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<Affiliation>
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<Address>
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<Email>meldroc@frii.com</Email>
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</Address>
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</Affiliation>
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</Author>
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</AuthorGroup>
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<PubDate>v1.55, 11 Oct 2000</PubDate>
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<PubDate>v1.60e, 21 March 2001</PubDate>
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<RevHistory>
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<Para>
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<Comment>
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Remove my xfs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Changes:
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Changed feenix.eyep.net Wed 03/21/01 09:54:43 PM
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ttmkfdir name is different on Debian. UPDATE. They are not the same.
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clarified some things based on suggestions from Uwe Dippel udippel@yahoo.com
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Added Chinese Translation.
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Added reference to Anti-aliasing.
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ttmkfdir name is different on Debian. UPDATE. They are not the same.
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ToDo:
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Remove xfs help page !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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anti-aliasing fonts with 4.02.
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www.xfree86.org/~keithp/render
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startx -- -dpi 100 -depth 16 -bestRefresh
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:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 90 -nolisten tcp
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add Translation section.
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mail: Yu-Chia Chang (joezhang at ms10.hinet.net) Chinese translation.
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http://www.linux.org.tw/CLDP/mini/FDU.html
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submitted: Wed 10/11/00 01:36:55 PM
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For next version:
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Hi. You might add the following info to the HOWTO.
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The "ttmkfdir" utility is called "mkttfdir" in Debian.
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It can be found in the "fttools" Debian package.
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Thomas Hood
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anti-aliasing
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http://www.xfree86.org/~keithp/render/
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</Comment>
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</Para>
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</Para>
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</ListItem>
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<ListItem>
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<Para>
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1.60e: March 21, 2001:
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A few very minor changes. Most notable news is anti-aliasing support now
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in XFree 4.02 (referenced in the Notes section only). Chinese translation
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URL added.
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</Para>
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</ListItem>
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</ItemizedList>
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</Para>
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<Sect2>
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<Title>New Versions</Title>
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<Para>
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Version 1.60x, is a pre-release version of this document. Nothing
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substantially new. Anti-aliasing support in XFree86 4.02 is the
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biggest news. I haven't had a chance to dig into this yet.
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</Para>
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<Para>
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Version 1.55 adds additional information relating to XFree86 4.x, and
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in particular what is new with Redhat 7.0. Also adding a neglected credit to
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<Para>
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The latest version of this document can be found at
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<Ulink URL="http://feenix.eyep.net/ldp/fdu/index.html">http://feenix.eyep.net/ldp/fdu/index.html</Ulink>.
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<Ulink URL="http://feenix.dyndns.org/ldp/fdu/index.html">http://feenix.dyndns.org/ldp/fdu/index.html</Ulink>.
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</Para>
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<LiteralLayout>
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Updated by Hal Burgiss.
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Email: <ULink URL="mailto:hal@foobox.net">hal@foobox.net</ULink>
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WWW: <Ulink URL="http://feenix.eyep.net/ldp/fdu">http://feenix.eyep.net/</ULink>
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WWW: <Ulink URL="http://feenix.dyndns.org/ldp/fdu">http://feenix.dyndns.org/</ULink>
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</LiteralLayout>
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</MSGText>
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</Para>
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</Sect2>
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<!-- ~ End Section ~ -->
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<!-- ~~~~~ New Section ~~~~~ -->
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<Sect2>
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<Title>Translations</Title>
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<!--
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mail: Yu-Chia Chang (joezhang at ms10.hinet.net) Chinese translation.
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http://www.linux.org.tw/CLDP/mini/FDU.html
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-->
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<Para>
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Chinese: <Ulink URL="http://www.linux.org.tw/CLDP/mini/FDU.html">http://www.linux.org.tw/CLDP/mini/FDU.html</Ulink> by Yu-Chia Chang.
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</Para>
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</Sect2>
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</Sect1>
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<!-- ~ End Section ~ -->
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font that is used. The X server then goes through the
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<Literal>FontPath</Literal> and grabs the first font it sees that matches the
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X client's criteria, and then renders. Note that Redhat's xfs for versions 6.x
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has a different way of setting the <Literal>FontPath</Literal>. See the
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<xref LinkEnd="xfs"> below for more on xfs.
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and later has a different way of setting the <Literal>FontPath</Literal>. See
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the <xref LinkEnd="xfs"> below for more on xfs.
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</Para>
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<Para>
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Default installations typically put 75dpi fonts before the 100dpi fonts. If
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you have a high resolution display, this means very tiny fonts. If this is the
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case, the first tweak you'll use is to switch the 75dpi and 100dpi FontPath
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lines:
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If the 100dpi fonts are not listed, they probably did not get installed for
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whatever reason, so you may want install them now. Default installations
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typically put 75dpi fonts before the 100dpi fonts. If you have a high
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resolution display, this means very tiny fonts. If this is the case, the
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first tweak you'll use is to switch the 75dpi and 100dpi FontPath lines:
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</Para>
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<BlockQuote>
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<Para>
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The default Redhat installation of xfs serves fonts via a Unix Domain Socket.
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We'll need to tell the X server where to look for xfs, and thus fonts. The
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FontPath in <FileName>/etc/X11/XF86Config</FileName> must include:
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FontPath in <FileName>/etc/X11/XF86Config</FileName> must include for Redhat
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6.x:
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</Para>
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<BlockQuote>
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</BlockQuote>
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<Para>
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for Redhat 6.x, or for Redhat 7.x:
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This is changed for Redhat 7.x to:
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</Para>
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<Para>
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<Literal>
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# chkfontpath --add /usr/local/share/fonts/ttfonts
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# chkfontpath --add /new/font/path
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</Literal>
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</Para>
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/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
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/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,
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/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,
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/usr/local/share/fonts/ttfonts
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/new/font/path
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</LiteralLayout>
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</Para>
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</BlockQuote>
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<Para>
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When adding a new FontPath for TrueType fonts, you will want to do this
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step after installing and preparing the fonts. See the next section.
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</Para>
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</Sect4>
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<Para>
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We still have a bit of work to do before we can actually use any TrueType
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fonts. xfs requires a few things to be in order. First, all font files must
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have lower case names. Secondly, they shouldn't have embedded spaces. And then,
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we will need to create a couple of files to make things go.
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have lower case names for xfs. Secondly, they shouldn't have embedded spaces.
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And then, we will need to create a couple of files to make things go.
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</Para>
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<Para>
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</Literal>
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</Para>
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<!--
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<ProgramListing>
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#!/bin/sh
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#
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## ~~~~~~~ convert upper to lower case ~~~~~~~~~
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ls * | while read f
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do
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if [ -f $f ]; then
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if [ "$f" != "`echo \"$f\" | tr A-Z a-z`" ]; then
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#Note that 'This' will overwrite 'this'!
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mv -iv "$f" "`echo \"$f\" | tr A-Z a-z`"
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fi
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fi
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done
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#- eof
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</ProgramListing>
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-->
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<Para>
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Note the punctuation -- the backquotes are important! Remove any spaces from
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<FileName>fonts.scale</FileName> files in your TrueType font
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directory. <Command>ttmkfdir</Command> is in the
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<FileName>Freetype</FileName> RPM, and must be run
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before <Command>mkfontdir</Command>. These commands don't seem to always
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report errors, so verify that they were created and are not empty files:
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before <Command>mkfontdir</Command>. With Debian based distros, there
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is a similar utility called <Command>mkttfdir</Command>, and is in the
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<Filename>fttools</FileName> Deb package. Though this apparently does not
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generate as many encodings as <Command>ttmkfdir</Command>. These commands
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<Para>
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<Para>
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<Literal>
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<MSGText>
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$ xset fp rehash
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</Para>
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<Para>
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<Command>xset +fp</Command> only needs to be run when adding a new font
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</Para>
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-->
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<Para>
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url="http://www.joerg-pommnitz.de/TrueType/ttmkfdir.tar.gz">http://www.joerg-pommnitz.de/TrueType/ttmkfdir.tar.gz</ulink>,
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or probably on many Linux archives sites too. Redhat has this as part of the
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<FileName>Freetype</FileName> RPM.
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<FileName>Freetype</FileName> RPM. And for Debian it is called
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Anti-aliasing is only supported by XFree86 4.02. This is something
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hot out of the oven. See
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<Ulink URL="http://www.xfree86.org/~keithp/render">http://www.xfree86.org/~keithp/render</Ulink>
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for details. This is a very recent development, and great news!
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Applixware, Wordperfect, Ghostscript, TeX/LaTeX.
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A <Ulink URL="http://www.moisty.org/~brion/linux/TrueType-HOWTO.html">TrueType HOWTO</Ulink>, good tips for printing, and a few application specific tips.
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-->
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<ListItem>
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<Ulink URL="http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/">xfsft Homepage</Ulink>,
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TrueType font support for X. This is the origin of the "freetype" font module
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for XFree86 4.x, and Redhat's xfs. Good site, and links to other information
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related to fonts and TrueType.
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for XFree86 4.x, and Redhat's xfs. Good site, and good links to other
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information related to fonts and TrueType.
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I also maintain a
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<Ulink URL="http://http://feenix.eyep.net/xstuff/xfs.html">help and
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<Ulink URL="http://http://feenix.dyndns.org/xstuff/xfs.html">help and
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troubleshooting page</Ulink> on Redhat's xfs. There is also an RPM there
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with the MS TrueType fonts, and working fonts.scale and fonts.dir in the package.
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Font-Deuglification-mini-HOWTO</ULink>, <CiteTitle>
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FDU</ULink>, <CiteTitle>
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XFree86 Font Deuglification Mini HOWTO</CiteTitle>
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Updated: October 2000</CiteTitle>.
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How to fix ugly and unreadable X Window fonts. </Para>
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Font-Deuglification-mini-HOWTO</ULink>, <CiteTitle>
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FDU</ULink>, <CiteTitle>
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XFree86 Font Deuglification Mini HOWTO</CiteTitle>
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<CiteTitle>
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Updated: July 2000</CiteTitle>.
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Updated: March 2001</CiteTitle>.
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How to fix ugly and unreadable X Window fonts. </Para>
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Font-Deuglification-mini-HOWTO</ULink>, <CiteTitle>
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FDU</ULink>, <CiteTitle>
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XFree86 Font Deuglification Mini HOWTO</CiteTitle>
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</Para><Para>
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<CiteTitle>
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Updated: October 2000</CiteTitle>.
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Updated: March 2001</CiteTitle>.
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How to fix ugly and unreadable X Window fonts. </Para>
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