Installing fonts for Gnome

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 12:31, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> > Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:19:46 -0400
> > 
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> > On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 21:27, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > I'm running Gnome 2.6 and have been trying to find out how to add new
> > > fonts to Gnome. More specifically, I have a dual system with FreeBSD and
> > > Windows. I'd like to be able to use the Windows fonts, especially the
> > > TrueType fonts, in FreeBSD and Gnome.
> > >=20
> > > I've been looking for any documentation on this, but have struck out to
> > > this point.
> > >=20
> > > Any ideas where I might find this information? Does anyone know if this
> > > is Gnome specific or an X issue or some combination.
> > 
> > XFree86 and X.Org can both make use of TrueType Windows fonts.  I keep
> > all of mine in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType.  There is a good
> > section in the handbook on using fonts in X:
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html
> > 
> > It also talks about configuring fontconfig to control font properties.=20
> > Some of this information can also be found in the FreeBSD GNOME FAQ at
> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html.
> 
> I still don't see much in the FAQ, but the X11 documentation in the
> handbook almost got me there. The problem is that ttmkfdir will not
> build on current. I worked around this by building with G++ 2.95, but I
> really don't like this "solution".

You don't need ttmkfdir anymore.  All you have to do is install the
fonts, then run fc-cache to teach fontconfig about them.

Joe

> 
> In any case, I finally have my Windows TrueType fonts available on
> FreeBSD and they do show up in Gnome apps.
> 
> Thanks! I really should have found this myself.
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