XFree86 4.3.0 anti-alias font problem
Doug Poland
doug at polands.org
Sat May 31 12:31:54 PDT 2003
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 07:33:51AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm on a 4.8-STABLE box with XFree86 4.3.0. I'm going through the handbook
> (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html)
> and adding anti-aliased fonts to my system.
>
> The problem I'm having is adding TrueType and the bitstream-vera fonts
> to my fontpath via xset.
>
> Following the handbook, I've...
>
> * Created the directory: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
> * Copied .ttf fonts from my windows partition to above directory
> * run the following command: ttmkfdir > fonts.dir
>
> I do get a message from ttmkfdir which states:
> "unknown font foundry code SYRC"
>
> A look at the files in the directory reveals nothing remotely similar
> to SYRC. The fonts.dir file appears valid but admittedly I'm not sure
> what I'm looking at.
>
> To continue, when I run:
>
> * xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
>
> I see:
>
> xset: bad font path element (#64), possible causes are:
> Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> Directory missing fonts.dir
> Incorrect font server address or syntax
>
> In my case, the directory does exist and has the same permissions as
> the other font directories. The fonts.dir file does exist. And I'm
> not sure what the 3rd possible cause is.
>
> Curiously, I get the exact same error when I try to add the
> bitstream-vera fonts (added via x11-fonts/bitstream-vera port) to the
> fontpath.
>
> * xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/bitstream-vera/
> xset: bad font path element (#64), possible causes are:
> Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> Directory missing fonts.dir
> Incorrect font server address or syntax
>
> I must be missing something here. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
For the archives, the problem went away when I restarted X.
--
Regards,
Doug
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