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>5. RedHat Peculiarities</H1
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> In some places, the previous descriptions are not applicable to
RedHat. These differences are described below: </P
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> While installing new font(s), the fontpath was supposed to be
included in the <SPAN
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>"Files"</SPAN
> section of <TT
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>XF86Config</TT
>.
In the case of RedHat this is not needed at all. There is a script called
<B
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>chkfontpath</B
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>chkfontpath</B
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add a fontpath like this: </P
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> chkfontpath -a /usr/local/share/fonts/ttfonts/bijoy/ </B
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> And remove a fontpath like this: </P
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> chkfontpath -r /usr/local/share/fonts/ttfonts/bijoy/ </B
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> If <B
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>chkfontpath</B
> doesn't show any error messages then the font(s) become
available or unavailable just after executing it. But even for RedHat, there
is no need to add a TrueType fontpath as <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"Xft"</SPAN
> itself makes the fonts
avilable to <SPAN
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>KWord</SPAN
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>chkfontpath</B
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for TrueType is optional.</P
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> Just for reference, in the case of RedHat, the fontpaths are added in
<TT
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>/etc/X11/fs/config</TT
> and not in <TT
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>XF86Config</TT
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or <TT
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>XF86Config-4</TT
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> To use the Bijoy keyboard, the <SPAN
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>"InputDevice"</SPAN
> section of
<TT
CLASS="filename"
>XF86Config</TT
> needs editing. For RedHat it's a different file,
<TT
CLASS="filename"
>XF86Config-4</TT
> (i.e. <TT
CLASS="filename"
>/etc/X11/XF86Config-4</TT
>).
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> The only use of TrueType was stated as low quality PDF creation
from <SPAN
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>MS Word</SPAN
> files, for printing only. Unfortunately
<SPAN
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> KWord </SPAN
> failed to open any <SPAN
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>MS Word</SPAN
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files in RedHat, let alone create PDFs. Don't know why. </P
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