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(Extracted from wine/documentation/ttfserver)
Follow these instructions to set up a TrueType font server on your system.
Get freetype-1.0.full.tar.gz
Read docs, unpack, configure and install
Test the library, e.g. ftview 20 /dosc/win95/fonts/times
Get xfsft-beta1e.linux-i586
Install it and start it when booting, e.g. in an rc-script. The manpage for xfs applies.
Follow the hints given by <williamc@dai.ed.ac.uk>
I got xfsft from http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/progindex.html. I have it running all the time. Here is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config:
clone-self = on use-syslog = off catalogue = /c/windows/fonts error-file = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/fs-errors default-point-size = 120 default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100 |
Obviously /c/windows/fonts is where my Windows fonts on my Win95 C: drive live; could be e.g. /mnt/dosC/windows/system for Win31. In /c/windows/fonts/fonts.scale I have
14 arial.ttf -monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 arialbd.ttf -monotype-arial-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 arialbi.ttf -monotype-arial-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 ariali.ttf -monotype-arial-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 cour.ttf -monotype-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 courbd.ttf -monotype-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 courbi.ttf -monotype-courier-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 couri.ttf -monotype-courier-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 times.ttf -monotype-times-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 timesbd.ttf -monotype-times-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 timesbi.ttf -monotype-times-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 timesi.ttf -monotype-times-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 symbol.ttf -monotype-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-symbol wingding.ttf -microsoft-wingdings-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-symbol |
In /c/windows/fonts/fonts.dir I have exactly the same.
In /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config I have
FontPath "tcp/localhost:7100" |
in front of the other FontPath lines. That's it! As an interesting by-product of course, all those web pages which specify Arial come up in Arial in Netscape ...
Shut down X and restart (and debug errors you did while setting up everything).
Test with e.g xlsfont | grep arial
Hope this helps...