From the link you provided :
2.2.5. Troubleshooting
If you seem to be unable to use some of the fonts you have installed, the first thing to check is that the `fonts.dir' files are correct and that they are readable by the server (the X server usually runs as root, beware of NFS-mounted font directories). If this doesn't help, it is quite possible that you are trying to use a font in a format that is not supported by your server.
Hope this help ...
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Tom Williams wrote:
Is the use of "ttmkfdir" still needed for TrueType font configuration with XFRee86 4.3.0? ttmkfdir isn't mentioned in the current online doc for installing TrueType fonts:
http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/fonts2.html#9
Thanks...
Peace...
Tom
COLIN Stephane wrote:
Hi Prasad !
To be able to use the font, follow this :
- launch xfontsel and look in the top right corner to see number of fonts avalaible. - open a term - switch as user root (su -) - cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ - copy here the font provided by the site (http://www.marathiworld.com/MARmith0.ttf) - ttmkfdir > fonts.scale (don't pay attention to the warning message) - ttmkfdir > fonts.dir (don't pay attention to the warning message) - mkfontdir -e /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings - fc-cache -f -v - VERIFY you have -> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/" in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. - open a term as normal user and type xset fp rehash - launch netscape from same term and enjoy !!!
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Prasad Khambete wrote:
Hello
I am running slackware 9.0 distribution of linux with XFree86 4.3.0 on a PC with Cyrix M II processor.
Web sites with content in the language Marathi (an indic language) do not display correctly using either Netscape of Konqueror. Even when I install the fonts.
http://www.marathiworld.com [ uses MARmith0.ttf ] http://www.esakal.com [ uses subak.ttf and subak1.ttf] http://www.maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com [ uses sudipto.ttf ]
Content on these web-sites uses 8-bit fonts (which is true of most of Marathi web-sites. They do not use Unicode fonts) But mkfontscale reports some of these fonts as having iso10646 encoding which must be an error.
For the first web-site only square blocks are displayed (maybe the font matches, but X is not able to render them ?) For the other two web-sites the font probably is not matched because it shows a lot of little square blocks.
Any help would be immensely appreciated. I have been trying various things for several days without success.
Thanks and regards -Prasad
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