On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Thomas Dodd wrote: >>So, unified font configuration is: >> >>1) Put fonts into systemwide TTF font directory > >What about other formats? Not every font is TrueType. Considering the >patent issues with TrueType, I'd prefer something better. Truetype/Type1/Opentype The patent issues with truetype are with respect to bytecode interpreting the font hints in hinted TTF fonts (not all are hinted). None of the ttf fonts we ship are hinted anyway so this is not too big a deal out of the box. Nonetheless, we support Type1/Opentype also, so choose your poison. >Where do the other fomats go? I use several apps on non-Linux systems >(the X remote display is great) that don't use Xft or TTF. In ~/.fonts or the other listed dirs. Don't make it more complicated than it is. It isn't complicated. >>2) "service xfs reload" >>3) Restart any applications that you want the fonts to show up >> in. > >Does all of this work for fontservers? As mentioned above for remote >work, I have fonts from HP-UX, Solaris, and Linux on one server, used by >all three system types. xfs *is* a fontserver. "service xfs reload" tells it to reload it's config file and rescan font dirs. >Can I put all my fonts on one machine and tell the others to get the >fonts from it? Yes, you can configure xfs to do that, although we don't officially support it with any config tools, etc. Very few people want to use such a feature, and generally they know how to configure it themselves, or they know how to read XFree86 manpage for xfs et al. >Do I need to share /usr/share/fonts via NFS or samba? What about >$HOME/.fonts? If that works, great. It's not really supported though, so you'll have to experiment to find out if it works or not. Most of these questions you're asking are not really Red Hat Linux specific. They are XFree86 specific. You might want to join the xpert@xfree86.org or fonts@xfree86.org mailing list. >>Steps 2 and 3 can be replaced by a "reboot". I'm not sure how >>much simpler it can get than that. Why on earth would one need >>some GUI "font configuration tool"? Does Windows need such a >>tool? Does Macintosh? Does any sane OS? No, not really. And > >Yes it does . Tools like Bitstream's "Font Navigator" or Adobe's >"Font Manager" that allow you to add/remove fonts. Windoze also >has a limit on how many font you can use. Oh, do those applications come with Windows? I didn't realize that. What is the name of the .exe file for those apps, I'd like to have a look at what the competition is shipping in their OS products. >Over 400 and it gets slow. Around 1200 the registry appears to >run out of room for more. My wife is a graphic designer, hence >the huge number of fonts, and has hit the limit. The above tools >allow you to see what the font looks like and the "Font" name, >not "File" name. They allow you to store fonts in places other >than C:\windows\fonts, and add/remove from the registry as >needed, simply and painlessly. I mentioned to Havoc that GNOME >need such a tool, and he agreed. To dat, I don't understand GUI >programming enough to even start one. Well, that is because the more fonts you have, the more information there is to parse, and so yes, the system will slow down. Windows limits the number of fonts I believe. >>you don't need one really in Red Hat Linux either. If fonts are >>placed in the correct place, and the system restarted, or >>manually restart as above, things "just work(TM)", which is the >>whole point. > >So how to you check for duplicates? >Many fonts are know by multiple names. Some are copies of others, like >the ugly Helvetica clone M$ thrust on us, Arial. md5sum -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
