Hi. Try one of this : 1) create link to font folder inside /etc/X11/fontpath.d , restart X 2) copy/link font folder to /usr/share/fonts , restart X 3) copy font folder to ~/.fonts then do fc-cache -rv and check output for line like '/home/n7dr/.fonts/n7dr: caching, new cache contents: 33 fonts, 0 dirs' and as usually 4) avoid topposting ;) Option 3 should work immediately, without restarting X... Regards, Slawek -- ________ _/ __/ __/ Fnord. \__ \__ \_______________________________________________________________ /___/___/ Sławomir Szczyrba steev(AT)hot.pl Dnia Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:56:33 -0600 "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@xxxxxxxxx> napisał(a): > Any more thoughts as to how I can add these fonts? Or at least diagnose why > I receive error #37 when I try to add them? > > Or where there is an X-specific mailing reflector where I can ask this > question? > > I can't progress with my project until these fonts are working under X :-( > > Doc > > ---- > > D. R. Evans said the following at 04/23/2012 05:34 PM : > > I couldn't find a more appropriate place to ask this question. Please feel > > free to point me to such a place if one exists. > > > > ---- > > > > Using a completely up-to-date 32-bit arch system, I am trying to make some > > fonts available to X. > > > > My understanding of the process is: > > > > 1. Put the fonts in a directory. > > 2. Since these are scalable fonts, run mkfontscale in the directory. > > 3. Run mkfontdir in the directory. > > 4. run xset +fp <directory name> > > > > So what I did: > > > > 0. Created the directory ~/.fonts. > > 1. Put the fonts in ~/.fonts. > > > > At this point the contents of the directory looks like this (sorry about > > the wrapping): > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 n7dr users 39 Apr 22 17:08 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -> > > /home/n7dr/fonts/CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 n7dr users 34 Apr 22 17:08 N7DR_SFTT1000.afm -> > > /home/n7dr/fonts/N7DR_SFTT1000.afm > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 n7dr users 34 Apr 22 17:08 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -> > > /home/n7dr/fonts/N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb > > > > 2. Ran mkfontscale in ~/.fonts. > > > > This created the file fonts.scale, which had the following contents: > > > > 33 > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ascii-0 > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp437 > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp850 > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp852 > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp866 > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1 > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-10 > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-13 > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15 > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2 > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3 > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-4 > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-5 > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-8 > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9 > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-e > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-r > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-ru > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-u > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-uni > > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-microsoft-cp1252 > > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard > > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0 > > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 > > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 > > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15 > > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9 > > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r > > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-ru > > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-u > > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1252 > > > > 3. Ran mkfontdir in ~/.fonts. > > > > This created the file fonts.dir, which was identical to fonts.scale. > > > > 4. One piece of documentation I read said that X automatically includes > > ~/.fonts in its path, but running > > xset q > > did not include ~/.fonts in the directory list. > > > > So I ran: > > xset +fp /home/n7dr/.fonts > > > > But now we come to the problem. This command returns: > > > > xset: bad font path element (#37), possible causes are: > > Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions > > Directory missing fonts.dir > > Incorrect font server address or syntax > > > > But: > > a. the directory obviously exists, and it has permissions rwx for the user. > > b. The directory contains the file fonts.dir > > c. The syntax looks OK. > > > > So what is xset complaining about? > > > > (I suspect that the problem lies in the *contents* of fonts.dir, since if I > > create a dummy version of the file, I don't receive the error. But since > > the file was automatically created, I don't know what might be wrong, nor > > how to correct it. Maybe my suspicion is wrong, though.) > > > > Doc > > > >
