Re: TTF font problems
Re: TTF font problems
- Subject: Re: TTF font problems
- From: Ben Byer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:03:14 -0800
On Nov 27, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
I like using the bitstream vera mono font for my terminals and
emacsen. This doesn't work under Leopard: The font files are in
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, but the Vera fonts are not listed in
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.dir.
That's a bug; we're apparently running mkfontdir too early in the
build process. Please file a bug at bugreport.apple.com.
So I tried running the commands
mkfontscale /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/
mkfontdir /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/
xset fp recache
but then the final command produces this output:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xset: bad font path element (#63), possible causes
are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
I have no idea how that (#63) is supposed to enlighten me, and anyway,
the vera fonts dont appear: The fonts.dir contains lines like
Vera.ttf -bitstream-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-
iso10646-1
but xlsfonts does not list the font.
Is this a bug in the X server's handling of truetype fonts, or did I
make a mistake, or is something else going on?
I have no clue why xset gives that error, but you should see the fonts
in the output of xlsfonts if you restart X11.app.
--
Ben Byer
CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer
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