On Friday 03 August 2001 08:05, Skip wrote:
On Thursday 02 August 2001 17:18, Wesley Allen wrote:
Hello all, I've got some nice type 1 fonts that I want to insert for use in X and in ghostscript. Can anyone run though the right command sequences to do this?
Sure, Wes. It really isn't difficult, and you'll be pleased to know
are many ways you can do it. Have you found the web site http://www.linuxdoc.org yet? At linuxdoc there is an excellent set of documentation that's well written and easy to understand. They have a search engine, and entering Type 1 fonts should lead you to a HOWTO on how to do it.
Have said that, two things need to happen:
1) X has to know where to find the fonts 2) The directory needs to have a special file called fonts.dir
rm -f fonts.dir && ttmkfontdir .
Before someone else jumps on this, the above line should have read
(in the directory where your fonts are located, type)
rm -f fonts.dir && mkfontdir .
(The other command was for TrueType fonts!)
--Skip _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug Skip, I was already doing what you said, but my fonts.dir file is consistently coming up with "0" as the number of fonts in the
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Skip Gaede <sgaede@mediaone.net> Reply-To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:17:20 -0400 there directory. Any ideas as to why? Wes