I'm trying to figure out how to make KDrive/TinyX use Microsoft's free TrueType fonts. I do not believe it is using them because when I run xlsfont, only my bitmapped fonts are listed - while my fonts.dir has the MS verdana font entries at the bottom of the file. Also, when I run the 'font' sample application that comes with wxWindows 2.4.0, it can see only the bitmapped fonts in fonts.dir. I think KDrive/TinyX (Xvesa) is ignoring my scalable font entries in fonts.dir. ======================================== Here are the steps I have done: 1) Downloaded the XFree86-4.5.0-src-[1..7].tgz files 2) Unzipped them 3) Copied \config\cf\xf86site.def to \config\cc\host.def 4) Edited the host.def as follows: #define DefaultFontPath built-ins,\ /home/jimbob/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,\ /home/jimbob/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,\ /home/jimbob/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi #define RgbPath /home/jimbob/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb #define KDriveXServer YES #define TinyXServer YES #define XvesaServer YES #define BuildType1 YES #define BuildFreeType YES 5) Downloaded and extracted the free Microsoft Core True Type fonts, decided to use the 'verdana' font 6) Created a font.scale file with verdana.tff in the /misc/ directory, then had that added to fonts.dir via mkfontdir, using these commands: ttmkfdir > fonts.scale mkfontdir 7) Verified the verdana fonts were added to fonts.dir (14 TTF entries were added). Here is the last bitmap and first TTF font in fonts.dir: 9x15-KOI8-R.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-koi8-r verdana.ttf -microsoft-Verdana-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0 8) Used the xlsfont program for X, and captured it's output - which had fixed fonts but no verdana in the output. 9) Use the wxWindows-2.4.0 'font' app to browse the available fonts, which had fixed fonts but no verdana. 10) My linux build machine is Redhat 7.3, and the PC-based device I am running this on uses a Redhat 7.3 kernel (with a custom OS layout due to the RPL booting) ======================================== Anyone spot any reason why TTF fonts would not be recognized by KDrive? ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
