On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > Remco Blaakmeer writes: > > > You can place the fonts in a subdirectory of /var/ttfonts . You can use > > any name for that subdirectory. Where you get the fonts is another issue. > > It is probably illegal to use the fonts that come with Windows. > > Why? If you bought a Windows license, you bought a license for the > Windows components, I think. > > Not being legal to use Windows fonts in Linux would be like being > illegal to buy Coke and using the jar to carry Oranje Juice... > > Also, if you bought any program that comes with true type fonts (like > Corel Draw), you could use them also!
I just meant that I didn't know for sure. I can't remember actually reading a license for a commercial application. > > You could get yourself a CD with a few hundred shareware/freeware > > fonts, but most of these are very poorly licensed. > > What do you mean by very poorly licensed? They have no license or the license is ill-formed or very ambiguous. You get the idea. > > xfstt isn't yet automatically started at boot time. To start it > > manually, do: > > > # xfstt & > > > ... as root. > > > To let the X server use the fonts, you can do: > > > $ xset fp+ tcp/localhost:7100 > > Thanks for the clues! I finally could see some nice fonts in > Netscape... Great! Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
