Adding fonts

[Mark J. Reed]

It's a little more work, but it might be better to add the Windows
fonts directory to the X font path.  Then you only store the actual
fonts in one place on disk, and all the system TTF fonts are available
to X.

You'd need to create the X11 font management metafiles in the system
fonts dir, but Windows will just ignore them.  You'd also need to
update them whenever you add new fonts . . . or schedule a job to
check periodically.


On 8/21/07, S James S Stapleton <stapleton.41@osu.edu> wrote:
> Yes. It's as easy as:
> cp /path/to/original.font /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/[fonttype]/
>
> where you replace [fonttype] with the type of font you want
>
> ex. copy all windows ttf fonts over:
> $ cp /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Fonts/*.[tT][tT][fF] /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf/
>
>
> Caveat:
> You might run into problems, depending on if you are running in dos or unix
> line mode, I can't remember...
>
> Hope that helps,
> -Jim Stapleton
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jean-Claude Gervais" <jc.gervais@videotron.ca>
> To: "Cygwin-XFree" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 4:11 PM
> Subject: Adding fonts
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a simple way to add fonts to Cygwin's X server?
> >
> > For example, I have a true-type font called TAHOMA.TTF that I would like
> > to make available to the X Server.
> >
> > Are all the host operating system's fonts automatically available to the
> > X server? Do I have to perform any special actions to enable them? Is
> > there a formula for doing this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance, list.
> >
> > J
> >
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