TTF Fonts from WinXP in Slackware current (pre-9.1) [Archived]

[HelicalCynic]

You should no longer need to manually install ttmkfdir or XFSTT to use TTF fonts in Slackware current (pre-9.1). Do the following as root...

1) Copy your fonts from your Windows/Fonts directory to /usr/X11/lib/fonts/TTF
2a)

cd /usr/X11/lib/fonts/TTF

2b)

/usr/X11/bin/mkfontscale

(you may need to remove marlett.ttf or some such font, mkfontscale gives an error on it)
2c)

/usr/X11/bin/mkfontdir

3) Make sure that everyone can *read* the fonts you just copied:

chmod a+r /usr/X11/lib/fonts/TTF/*

(This was the step I forgot, OpenOffice won't pick up that the fonts are there unless they can be read...)
4) Make sure your /etc/X11/XF86Config has a line like

FontPath         "/usr/X11/lib/fonts/TTF"

5) Restart X, and you should be ready to go! (Note: This does not yet get the fonts to show up in Mozilla Firebird-GTK2-XFT2)

[MMYoung]

Originally posted by HelicalCynic
(Note: This does not yet get the fonts to show up in Mozilla Firebird-GTK2-XFT2)

I know that this is nearly 2 months after the fact but I hope it helps someone. After reading this post and doing exactly what it says you need to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file as follows:

Under
Section "Module"

look for the following entries:
# This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
# Load "freetype"
# Load "xtt"

Just uncomment the freetype line so that it looks like this

Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
Load "freetype"
# Load "xtt"
Note from MMYoung, edited on 10/31 at 2 PM CT US
Big BOOBOO here hope I didn't screw someone else's pooch. Don't add a "Load TTF" line, just uncomment the freetype line and it will work

Now your fonts will be available to everything, including Mozilla Firebird and/or Thunderbird.

Hope this helps, just wish I posted it sooner.

Later,
MMYoung