5.7 Fonts: True Type Font Server

You can add your own fonts and sharing them by putting them into /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype. You need to run a couple of commands to make them available to X (thanks to Adam Trickett 080302):

# aptitude install ttmkfdir
# cd /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype
# mkdir ttf-foo
(then put your foo fonts in here)
# cd foo
# ttmkfdir
# head -1 fonts.scale > fonts.dir
# tail -n +2 fonts.scale | tac >> fonts.dir
# cp fonts.dir fonts.scale

% I originally had: %bash %# cd /usr/local/share/fonts %# mkdir truetype %# chmod go+rx truetype %# cd truetype %# wget http://www.children2children.net/promos/fonts/kidprint.zip %# unzip kidprint.zip %# rm kidprint.zip %# mkfontscale (or ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale ?????) %# mkfontdir %

% Adam Tricket 080302: On Etch and later there is no % /etc/X11/fs/config anymore. I think fonts got reorganised a lot when % X11 got upgraded and defoma took over more control on the system.

% I originally had: %You need to add the path to the catalogue entry in %/etc/X11/fs/config: %bash % /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/ %

%A couple of other paths that should also be included there for the %defoma package managed fonts to be available are: %bash % /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID/ % /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/ %

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