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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: TrueType fonts in KDE
From:       "Tasnim Ahmed" <debugger () bigfoot ! com>
Date:       1999-08-31 8:52:44
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Hi:

I am sorry but I dont know about the packages you are refering to secondly I
have only e-mail access in my room so I cant take a look at the HOW-TO.

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Tasnim Ahmed
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----- Original Message -----
From: steve patient <spatient@dial.pipex.com>
To: KDE User List <kde-user@lists.netcentral.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 11:29 AM
Subject: TrueType fonts in KDE


> Thanks for the reply Tasnim, but I already have the font server running on
> my Redhat 6 system, but that's a server. I'm trying to instal xfsft on my
> Suse 6.2 workstation. The relevant bit of the original posting is:
> ----------------------------
> I've been trying to make KDE use the xfsft font server to get TrueType
> fonts into my KDE apps. Ying Zhang Mini-HOWTO at
> http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/ is the route I'm taking, adding a font
> server using rpms rather than trying to patch and recompile the X server,
> which is currently way beyond me.
>
> The problem is the makefile for ttmkfdir, which produces the font.scale
> files. The default compiliation complains about missing library files. The
> enclosed README says FreeType doesn't by default produce the static
library
> libttf.a and I should change the makefile to use libttf.so. I've tried but
> can't find out what to change.
>
> ---------------------------
> I just don't know about make files, libraries or programming but I can
edit
> a text file once told what to do. Perhaps someone who has got xfsft
running
> and ttmkfdir working could manage a make-file-by-numbers answer. Thanks in
> advance
>
> Cheers
> Steve


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