Truetype Fonts

[Xptos]

Hi all,

I have ben trying to follow the XFree86 Font de-uglification howto. I got to the section on truetype (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/truetype.html), then ran into a problem. It says to add a line to XF86config pointing to the truetype directory. Then copy all the *.ttf files into that dir. All this went ok.

I do:

# ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale
# mkfontdir

In the truetype font dir, and both run without errors. I restart xfs (which sees the truetype dir) and then startx.

Then I do:

$ xlsfonts | less

It should list all the fonts avalible to the system. If I do:

$ xlsfonts | grep verdna

It returns no fonts. I know there is a verdna.ttf inside the truetype dir. Can anyone tell me what's going on?

[numerodix]

I had the same problems, the fonts would appear in I think Mozilla but not OpenOffice for instance..

Besides that, I noticed while building X that a couple of .exe files are also downloaded, on of which is named Verdana, one would think it would be installed somewhere, rendering manual installation obsolete?

[The Khan Artist]