Adding a TrueType Font : Redhat ?

Zitan · 08-07-2003, 10:55 PM

Greetings All,

I am working with Redhat 9.0, with the latest stuff for font rendering (glib, gtk, pango, freetype, etc...).

To add TrueType fonts I copy them into my xfree dir::
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF

Recompile fonts:
> ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale
> mkfontdir

Restart xfs :
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart

And then check this worked with xlsfonts. All good? Well yes previously. I just dumped some new fonts in, ran through the steps, but hold on when I run xlsfonts I get back this result::
xlsfonts: pattern "*" unmatched

Why? What does it mean? What have I done wrong? Is it an error in one of the font files ?/

Any help is greatly appreciate

G.

Zitan · 08-08-2003, 12:08 AM

My guess is that ttmkfdir cannot handle ttf files in CAPS or ones that previously existed in CAPS?

Any thoughts ???

Thanks,
Z.

Zitan · 08-08-2003, 12:29 AM

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/FDU/truetype.html

I guess this is what they call a batch file ... or it is a c script ?

Yeah

how did you guess ?

Quote:

There is still more work to be done before we can actually use any TrueType fonts. First, all font files must have lower case names. Secondly, they shouldn't have embedded spaces. And then, we will need to create a couple of configuration files to make things go.

Su to root, and change to the directory where the TrueType fonts are.

# su -
# cd /usr/local/share/fonts/ttfonts

If there are any upper case font names, you can use the following script to convert all names to lower case:

#!/bin/sh
#
## -------- convert upper to lower case ---------

ls * | while read f
do
if [ -f $f ]; then
if [ "$f" != "`echo \"$f\" | tr A-Z a-z`" ]; then
#Note that 'This' will overwrite 'this'!
mv -iv "$f" "`echo \"$f\" | tr A-Z a-z`"
fi
fi
done

## eof

Zitan · 08-08-2003, 12:37 AM

Ahaaaa ::: AWESOME

[root@linuxdev test]# ls
BAUHAUSH.TTF covertupperfonts FUTURAXK.TTF
BROADW.TTF FUTURAK.TTF PSTRBODN.TTF
[root@linuxdev test]# covertupperfonts
[root@linuxdev test]# ./covertupperfonts
`BAUHAUSH.TTF' -> `bauhaush.ttf'
`BROADW.TTF' -> `broadw.ttf'
`FUTURAK.TTF' -> `futurak.ttf'
`FUTURAXK.TTF' -> `futuraxk.ttf'
`PSTRBODN.TTF' -> `pstrbodn.ttf'
[root@linuxdev test]# ls
bauhaush.ttf covertupperfonts futuraxk.ttf
broadw.ttf futurak.ttf pstrbodn.ttf
[root@linuxdev test]#

Zitan · 08-08-2003, 12:41 AM

Crap ::

[root@linuxdev TTF]# xlsfonts > /home/zitan/fonts
xlsfonts: pattern "*" unmatched

grrrr ...

Zitan · 08-08-2003, 12:48 AM

K Full Circle:

If a TTF font started in CAPS, even you if change the name (I guess that is all that script does!) that system still cannot understand it....

Any comments on this ??

Thanx, Z.

Zitan · 08-10-2003, 04:44 PM

No suggestions?? Nobody else has run into this problem or something similar before when adding TrueType fonts?

Just wonedering ... thanx ...