Truetype FontsForum: X and Fluxbox Topic: Truetype Fonts started by: sjmelia Posted by sjmelia on May 09 2004,11:35
Anybody had any luck getting truetype fonts in DSL? I'm a newbie but i've tried an awful lot to get them working. My latest attempt was to install xfs-xtt, it starts up before the bash login with the following options:-daemon -user nobody -port 7110 When i try fslsfonts -server 7110 it tells me it can't find this server, so xset fp+ unix/:7110 doesn't work either. If I could get this one thing working i'd use DSL much more often - I spend more time listening to swap paging in Windows than working. Posted by Grim on May 10 2004,11:56
DSL uses the KDrive X servers so I'm not sure if John or Robert compiled in TTF support...From the developers website: < In order to run KDrive on your hardware, you need to compile a KDrive server with the proper os, keyboard, mouse and display drivers. In addition, you will need to select the set of font renderers and server extensions that you want to compile. >KDrive should be able to support all the font renderers supported by XFree86. You may add any of the following to your host.def file: #define BuildSpeedo YES #define BuildType1 YES #define BuildCID YES #define BuildFreeType YES #define FontServerAccess YES In XFree86 4.3.0 and later, the FreeType backend includes support for all common scalable font formats (including Type 1). For most uses, it is the only one that you will need. The source tarball is available < here >. The CVS log is available < here. > Posted by dslfool on May 12 2004,05:55
This won't help the majority of DSL users, but...I use OpenOffice 1.1.1 in DSL installed on a hard drive and discovered that TrueType fonts copied to /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.1/share/fonts/truetype work in the various components of OpenOffice. These fonts aren't available to other apps in DSL, but having them there in OpenOffice offers me better compatibility with docs created in MS Office on other platforms. Posted by sjmelia on May 12 2004,10:48
Cheers, that's much better than nothing! I might try and download a copy of OpenOffice today, then I can abandon my achingly slow XP for 75% of the time... i'm sure OpenOffice supports ms word .doc as well doesn't it?
Posted by dslfool on May 12 2004,16:50
Yes, I use OpenOffice just for the .doc and .xls file support. With Times New Roman, Arial and Courier New TrueType fonts installed, I can create .doc or .xls files that Windows/MS Office users can read without the formatting differences they'd see if I used fonts they didn't have.
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