XFree86 fails to see/render TrueType fonts
Michael Bax
bax3.NO@SPAM.bigfoot.com
Tue Nov 11 16:30:00 GMT 2003
Hi
XFree86 fails to render TTF fonts on my computer. This is true for the
bundled fonts/TTF/* as well as the Windows fonts.
There are two problems:
1. XFree86 does not appear to include the X11 fonts/TTF directory in the
font path by default. This can be shown by removing the Luxi fonts in the
fonts/Type1 directory and rehashing. The server should use the TTF versions
instead, but it does not see these fonts at all. This can be fixed using
xset fp+, but surely the TTF font directory should be included in the path
by default?
2. After xset fp+ and rehash, the TrueType fonts are listed in e.g.
xfontsel. However, they are not rendered (or are rendered blank)! The same
is true for my custom-installed TrueType fonts. They worked in XFree86 3.x,
however, using the same installation procedure.
Other fonts are fine, but all TrueType fonts are effectively invisible.
This is on a fresh installation of Cygwin DLL 1.5.5-1 running on Windows
2000 SP4, with XFree86-bin-4.3.0-6.
Cheers
Michael
[Previously posted in error to wrong list, doh.]
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