Lao TTf OT fonts

Mark Guzzo marguz at ameritech.net
Fri Sep 3 16:20:41 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 10:56, Anousak wrote:
> Thanks, Rex.
> 
> Fonts still not loaded. As I did,
> 
> 1) Copied all Lao TTF fonts into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
> 2) executed '/sbin/service xfs reload' from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
> 3) executed 'fc-cache' from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
> 4) Open Kate, Configure Editor, Schemas-Font, no Lao TTF fonts listed, only
> Bitstream and others.
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 
> Anousak
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rex Dieter
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 11:37 AM
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
> Subject: Re: Lao TTf OT fonts
> 
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Anousak wrote:
> >
> >> copy *ttf to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
> >> run 'ttmkfdir > fonts.scale'
> >> run 'mkfontdir'
> >> run 'xset ft rehash'
> >> I wasn't able to run 'xftcache'
> >
> > Replace those steps with
> > /sbin/service xfs reload
> > fc-cache
> 
> I should have said, replace the steps after the font/file copy.  That part 
> still needs to be done, of course.  (-:
> 
> -- Rex
> 
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I just copy the *.ttf files to /home/user/.fonts directory. It's not
there by default, you must mkdir .fonts and then copy the *.ttf files to
it. X does not even need to be restarted.

HTH :-)

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