fonts and symbolic links

[Boaz Harrosh]

Boaz Harrosh wrote:

> As I am trying to pack a minimum X installation 
> (see:http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-07/msg00207.html)
>
> I have played around with using windows fonts and only supplying the 
> smallest possible fonts in download.
> I have done the following:
> 1) run> mkfontdir -  in the /cygdrive/c/windows/font/ directory
> 2) run> ttmkfdir.exe >> font.dir - I found ttmkfdir.exe in an old 
> cygwin/xfree (not x.org) installation. It is very useful still. I 
> suggest someone updates it to the new x.org package or should I have 
> used something else?
>
> [Q] if I run> ln -s /cygdrive/c/windows/font/ 
> /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF - On load, XWin.log will still complain 
> about /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF been not loadable.
> But if I deep copy > cp /cygdrive/c/windows/font/* 
> /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ - than it is OK. Why would XWin not 
> follow the symbolic link prepared by cygwin1.dll? This is Important as 
> it is a big Resource and I don't want to duplicate windows font 
> directory.
>
I managed to work around the symbolic links problem with mounting 
c:\windows\fonts on /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ so I have my Install 
do that and it works. Even though its name is TTF it will actually 
include all the windows fonts 95% of which are usable by XWin. Good Job 
X.org for supporting all these windows font formats.

2 Issues remain.
1- The original one why links don't work. 2 - what's with ttmkfdir.exe 
can/should it be included in cygwin/X?
( It was included in cygwin/XFree. Since the move to X.org it is no 
longer there)

If any one wants to know:
Additional to the preparation of the windows fonts to be used by 
cygwin/X one needs the following files:
1) in /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
    6x12.pcf.gz
    cursor.pcf.gz
    fonts.alias
    fonts.dir
(see 2 attached text files)
2) The original contents of  fonts/encodings/ (0.5Mg)
3) Original contents of  /fonts/util (0.2Meg)
3) All other fonts/ dirs can be removed. X11r6/bin can be trimmed down 
to 1/2 a dozen files.

And thats it Nothing else need changed. The original X11r6/ installation 
was 24Mg now it is down to 3.5Mg including extras.

And I am sorry to say that now (using the windows fonts) it looks much 
(^2) better.

Free Life
Boaz


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