Re: defoma and registering ttf fonts system wide

2013-05-05 Thread Thilo Six
Hello Excerpt from staticsafe: -- -- >>> I used to use defoma to register ttf fonts. Now that it's gone, >>> how to register ttf fonts system wide now? >> >> Drop the fonts in one of the paths defined in >> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. Currently this is:

Re: defoma and registering ttf fonts system wide

2013-05-04 Thread staticsafe
On 5/4/2013 18:10, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 04.05.2013 23:06, schrieb T o n g: >> Hi, >> >> I used to use defoma to register ttf fonts. Now that it's gone, >> how to register ttf fonts system wide now? > > Drop the fonts in one of the paths defined in >

Re: defoma and registering ttf fonts system wide

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 04.05.2013 23:06, schrieb T o n g: > Hi, > > I used to use defoma to register ttf fonts. Now that it's gone, how to > register ttf fonts system wide now? Drop the fonts in one of the paths defined in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. Currently this is: /usr/share/fonts /usr/X1

defoma and registering ttf fonts system wide

2013-05-04 Thread T o n g
Hi, I used to use defoma to register ttf fonts. Now that it's gone, how to register ttf fonts system wide now? A side question, I used to be able to find out why packages disappearing from the repo by querying it at http://packages.qa.debian.org/, now I can't. How can I know wh

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:47:15PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: [..] > I have these installed (BTW, the usherbrooke site that you said is not > an official site, it is actually a Debian mirror, listed on Debian > website): Oooops, oh ok. Yeah I can see the indic-fonts package: [

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-03 Thread H.S.
Chris Bannister wrote: A ps file is just a plain text file. Well, an image can also be made in to a gs file, which in turn is still a text file. What I am trying to say is that the fonts which appear weird to gs are probably being converted to an image in the ps file. Given what I wrote

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:18:45PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> How do you generate your .pdf compared with your .ps, or is it a menu choice, which unfortunately hides all the gory details. >>> From within OOo from a menu, it exports the odt file directly to PDF. >>> >

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 06:19:01PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: >>> I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing >>> "just works" for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so >>> never lo

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-02 Thread H.S.
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: How do you generate your .pdf compared with your .ps, or is it a menu choice, which unfortunately hides all the gory details. From within OOo from a menu, it exports the odt file directly to PDF. What happens if you generate your .pdf (which seems to include the font

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 06:19:01PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > >So you installed some ttfs, and if you print a .pdf all is ok, but if > >you print a .ps it isn't? > > Yes, that is pretty much it. > I use the following fon

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-02 Thread H.S.
Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing "just works" for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so never looked), or the problem is not straight forward at all. So, which one

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing > "just works" for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so > never looked), or the problem is not straight forward at all. So, which > one is it? So you i

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-01 Thread David Fox
On 2/29/08, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, I am trying to push Linux in a local community center (also trying > to convince them that the MS Windows they keep on install on all Go for it! I just came back from such an event - here in California there was a rather large, distributed insta

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-01 Thread David Fox
On 2/29/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > like a cookiesheet in the oven: crack! It was replaced with the 486 in > 1994 (in the middle of exams at UofT). Lucky you. I waited until 1996 (basically until I could afford it and there was a good special) to get a pentium 100 with 16 me

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-29 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
H.S. wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Why is it that you need to use TT fonts? Debian has free fonts > > available as standard packages that "just work". > > Somebody is preparing a document (in OOo) which must have those > fonts. No choice here, I am afraid. There is ttf2pt1, a TrueType t

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/29/08 10:58, H.S. wrote: [snip] > BTW, I am trying to push Linux in a local community center (also trying > to convince them that the MS Windows they keep on install on all > computers donated to them without Windows is not really legal!). If the

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-29 Thread H.S.
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Why is it that you need to use TT fonts? Debian has free fonts available as standard packages that "just work". Doug. Somebody is preparing a document (in OOo) which must have those fonts. No choice here, I am afraid. ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:58:47AM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Thanks. I was beginning to wonder. > > I think I faced this problem sometime back as well. Never got it fixed. > The crux of the matter is: how does Debian (Linux in general?) deal with > printing a ttf font to PS -- without having to tweak

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-29 Thread H.S.
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing "just works" for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so never looked), or the problem is not straight forward at all. So, which one

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:09:19PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > For the record, my IBM PS-ValuePoint 100DX4/Tp 6492x5c 486 was purchased > in 1988 (not 1987) :) If its for the record, I may as well get it straight (perhaps I am an old fogey). 1988 was when I got my IBM PS/2 model 70-A21 (3

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:33:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/28/08 20:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:44:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Also, can anybody confirm the above problem does not occur for him? > >>> Well, I never use OO.o, never use non-latin fon

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 20:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:44:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Also, can anybody confirm the above problem does not occur for him? >>> Well, I never use OO.o, never use non-latin fonts, never use tt fonts

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:44:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Also, can anybody confirm the above problem does not occur for him? > > > > Well, I never use OO.o, never use non-latin fonts, never use tt fonts. > > I write with LaTex and turn the dvi into whatever I need. I'm I'm > > printing I

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 19:17, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > >> I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing >> "just works" for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so >>

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing > "just works" for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so > never looked), or the problem is not straight forward at all. So, which > one is it? > > Also,

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-28 Thread H.S.
printout. This is on Openoffice.org 2.3 on Debian Testing. Where do I start looking to solve this one? The printer is question is Brother 2070n. I looked in to this problem a bit more and it appears that the problem is while printing the document to postscript. Looks like the ttf fonts are not

getting gs to see ttf fonts (was: Re: openoffice.org: fonts different on a printout (PDF print works))

2008-02-27 Thread H.S.
on Openoffice.org 2.3 on Debian Testing. Where do I start looking to solve this one? The printer is question is Brother 2070n. I looked in to this problem a bit more and it appears that the problem is while printing the document to postscript. Looks like the ttf fonts are not being printed in

Re: ttf fonts ugly when non-anti-aliased (after -> xserver-xorg)

2005-08-07 Thread Jim McCloskey
"Maciek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> I've recently installed xserver-xorg that is in unstable. Everything |> went smoothly, and everything runs fine. I just have one small, but |> terribly annoying problem now: non-antialiased fonts, possibly only |> TrueType ones, like "arial", now look ugly

ttf fonts ugly when non-anti-aliased (after -> xserver-xorg)

2005-08-07 Thread Maciek
I've recently installed xserver-xorg that is in unstable. Everything went smoothly, and everything runs fine. I just have one small, but terribly annoying problem now: non-antialiased fonts, possibly only TrueType ones, like "arial", now look ugly. Before the upgrade, non-AA 12pt arial looked j

Re: TTF fonts

2001-07-07 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Paul D. Smith (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 09:25:41PM -0400): > All the TrueType capabilities in both the xfs and builtin solutions are > free software, developed "natively" on Linux (most of them). i hate portmap and consequently, i don't use any Xservers. now, unless i go for XFree 4 which i

Re: TTF fonts

2001-07-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mfk> also sprach Paul D. Smith (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 06:07:40PM -0400): >> You don't have a fonts.scale or fonts.dir file in your fonts >> directory; I'm pretty sure you need to. mfk> first, i translate to Type-1, got to stay native, you k

Re: TTF fonts

2001-07-07 Thread Martin Maciaszek
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 01:31:43AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: [snip] > > first, i translate to Type-1, got to stay native, you know: > for i in *.ttf; do ttf2pt1 -b $i ${i%%.ttf}; done > > then, i create the font.scale file with the script at > http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.pht

Re: TTF fonts

2001-07-07 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Paul D. Smith (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 06:07:40PM -0400): > You don't have a fonts.scale or fonts.dir file in your fonts directory; > I'm pretty sure you need to. thanks, that was it. i got it to work now: first, i translate to Type-1, got to stay native, you know: for i in *.ttf; do tt

Re: TTF fonts

2001-07-07 Thread Paul D. Smith
You don't have a fonts.scale or fonts.dir file in your fonts directory; I'm pretty sure you need to. If you are using XFree86 4.x and a "testing" distribution of Debian, you can use my doc to very easily install TrueType fonts, and you don't need a font server to do it (XFree86 4 has built-in supp

Re: TTF fonts

2001-07-07 Thread Martin F. Krafft
cool, i followed ray's advice, and now i seem to be able to translate fonts. so i placed them into ~/lib/fonts: fishbowl:~/lib/fonts> ls -l total 32 -rw---1 madduck users 13264 Jul 7 22:05 internal.afm -rw---1 madduck users2356 Jul 7 22:05 internal.enc -

Re: TTF fonts

2001-07-07 Thread ray p
: > unfortunately, i *have* to use a font made available to me in TTF > (windoze) format. is there a way to convert it to a postscript or > type-1 font? > > or, i guess, how could i use ttf fonts in my X installation (easily)? > > martin; (greetings from

TTF fonts

2001-07-07 Thread Martin F. Krafft
unfortunately, i *have* to use a font made available to me in TTF (windoze) format. is there a way to convert it to a postscript or type-1 font? or, i guess, how could i use ttf fonts in my X installation (easily)? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto

TTF fonts : Missing charsets ...

2001-03-01 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, I use wfstt to get TTF available to X. I can see the fonts with xlsfonts | grep ttf but when I try for example xfd -fn -ttf-verdana-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 I get Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to

Re: TTF - Fonts in KDE 2.0 apps

2000-11-27 Thread Manegold
Hi! Sorry I didn't explain that properly. I meant, that I have xfstt serving ttf fonts to X. This works fine with other apps (Nescape, Mozilla etc.), so the problem is not there. konqueror and the other KDE2 apps however do not see those fonts and do not offer them for selection. Why?

TTF - Fonts in KDE 2.0 apps

2000-11-26 Thread Manegold
Hi All! Why is it that KDE2 apps don't offer any ttf-fonts supplied by the xfstt-server? Other apps (Netscape Mozilla etc.) offer those fonts. Even some other (PS Type1) fonts supplied via xfs are not an option. Again why?? How can I convince those apps to accept the ttf fonts too? I'

How to install TTF fonts...

1999-10-27 Thread David Pollack
Update I got the GNOME problem fixed but I am still stuck w/o TT Fonts. I have done the xfstt --sync and it found 198 fonts as I said before and I added the line FontPath "unix/:7101" to my XF86Config file and still when I startx, I don't get the true type fonts. I have tried adding the fo

Re: Converting TTF fonts to PCF

1998-12-11 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: > Hello friends! > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > I'd like to ask - is there any software for converting TrueType fonts to > PCF or to Type1? I need to convert those fonts for StarOffice - it works > only with PCF or Type1. I have great opportunity to use fonts from >

RE: Converting TTF fonts to PCF

1998-12-09 Thread Shaleh
On 09-Dec-98 Peter Paluch wrote: > Hello friends! > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > I'd like to ask - is there any software for converting TrueType fonts to > PCF or to Type1? I need to convert those fonts for StarOffice - it works > only with PCF or Type1. I have great opportunity to use fonts from > Window

Converting TTF fonts to PCF

1998-12-09 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello friends! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I'd like to ask - is there any software for converting TrueType fonts to PCF or to Type1? I need to convert those fonts for StarOffice - it works only with PCF or Type1. I have great opportunity to use fonts from Windows, but I have to convert them. Does anybody of y

ttf Fonts and debian

1998-03-29 Thread Peter Shtinkov
Can I use my TTF fonts from win95 to X (Debian 1.3) ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]