Hi all,
Some good thing to share. I installed the new version of XFree86 that came
with PCQ (last month - XFree86-4.02). Interestingly, the new X font server
displays all (okay, not all, but most of them) the true type fonts that I
have. There are only few steps to be done to achieve this. This is what I
did.
1. First I created a new directory in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/
directory. I called it "TrueType".
2. Then I copied all the true type fonts that I had into that directory.
3. Next I ran the following command
[root@localhost /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType]# ttmkfdir -o fonts.dir
4. Next I added the path of the newly made directory in the "catalog" of
the config file for xfs. The config file is at
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config. I also added the path in the "FontPath" of
XF86Config file.
5. Next, I restarted the font server,
[root@localhost ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart
That's it !!! Now you can have all your true type fonts. I could even have
Indian fonts working with it. :-)
More importantly, for GUI users, Netscape now looks much better. Believe
me, much better especially Netscape 6.1. I have tried it with both
Netscape 4.73 and Netscape 6.1 and both of them are able to use the
new fonts. Netscape 4.73 somehow is not able to use all of them. I don't
know why that is so. Netscape 6.1 uses all of them.
Will now try to use this fonts with StarOffice. BTW, I am not able to use
Java with StarOffice 5.1/5.2. I have jdk 1.3 installed. I have looked at
many places for some answers, but couldn't find. I tried some of the
solutions available on the net. The only difference now is that it does
not display any "errors", but still no applets. Quite wierd, specially
since both the products are made by the same company.
Regards,
Rajen.