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.