Re: X does fonts quite poorly - only thing I like about MS

[a mole <mole pasdex com au>]

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Eric Livingston wrote:

> Now, I know there's some way to get TrueType fonts on X, though after
> browsing through the home site and the HOWTOs, it seems like quite a
> chore, even for a guy such as myself that routinely tweaks the OS,
> recompiles just about everything, and generally hacks around a lot. And it
> all just doesn't seem worth it since as far as I know, X can't do the kind
> of font smoothing that makes the MS stuff look so good IMHO. The truetype
> patches to xfs, directories, etc really need to be rolled into the
> official release so that TrueType support becomes transparent and
> automatic in any X installation.

For RH6 this is already all there.  The only thing missing are the fonts
themselves.  To make it happen...

- find some .ttf fonts and put them somewhere.  I use  
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType but I can't remember if I made
that or it was already there.

- cd into your fonts directory and run: ttmkfdir -o fonts.dir

- RH6 use a font server by default so you need to add your path to the
font server congif:  /etc/X11/fs/config

- restart the font server: /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart

- You should be all done.  Restart X. (optional)
	
All of your other complaints about X and fonts are more or less vaild. :)

M.