Perhaps either xfs-xtt of mkttfdir expect font files to have a lowercase file extention. Remeber .MP3 is different than .mp3, and .JPG is different than .jpg, so it's not hard to imagine that this could be your problem.
Bryan > there is mkttfdir in fttools package. > >> Another question: Once I create fonts.dir, are there any other steps >> to configure the font server to use the ttf fonts? > > i wnat to know this too, i installed xfs-xtt and used the above tool > on a couple fonts i got from MS' gratis fonts page, and they showed up > and were usable in netscape. but these were not enough fonts so i > nabbed all the fonts from NT 4 and used the same utility which > generated the fonts.dir file just fine it looks like, but now none of > them are available for use in X, only the original X bitmapped fonts >:( > > i cannot find any difference, except that this time i did not fix all > the ugly MSDOS 8.3 filenames to lowercase but i don't see how that > would matter. (its amazing even with a somewhat advanced filesystem > like NTFS that you still end up with fscking 8.3 filenames when you > archive files...) > > -- > Ethan Benson > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
