True Type Fonts

**Digital_Froggy** · 12-12-2001, 01:06 PM

Could someone point me to a good tutorial on setting up true type fonts in Mandrake and RedHat? Thankyou much.

Gary

**civ1492** · 12-12-2001, 01:13 PM

isnt this already in a pet ? .. cause I would also like to know how you do it ..

**noblestknight** · 12-12-2001, 01:25 PM

http://www.linux.org.il/faq/cache/135.html

**mdwatts** · 12-16-2001, 04:27 AM

This is what I use and it always works fine for me.

cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
mkdir TrueType
Copy your Windows TT Fonts to newly created directory
cd TrueType
/usr/sbin/ttmkfdir >fonts.scale
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
Next add the TrueType font path to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

**chadm1967** · 12-16-2001, 06:37 PM

For Mandrake, it's very easy. Mandrake included a tool called drakfont. With this tool you can install TrueType fonts from a Windows partition, CD, ZIP disk, floppy, etc. Just direct drakfont to wherever the fonts are.

What version of Red Hat are you running? With 7.2, it's also very easy.