True Type Fonts

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

D. D. Brierton wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 17:29 -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
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>>Place the fonts under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF, then just (as root) run:
>>/sbin/service xfs reload
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>>You may need to restart your session so some apps are aware of the fonts 
>>(not necesarily required), and that's it.
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>No, that method is now deprecated. Xft/fontconfig is the preferred way
>of handling True Type fonts, not XFS. See the release notes:
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>file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html#id851717
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>Best, Darren
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The other method worked poorly for me, this has been still reliable... 
at least for me.