[Indic-computing-users] True Type fonts...

[Frederick N. <fr...@by...>]

This is what expat Indians are discussing on the Middle-East LUG. FN

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Message: 9
   Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 05:31:02 -0800 (PST)
   From: Manoj Menon <man...@ya...>
Subject: RE: Re: True Type fonts

Dear Mathew Varghese,

--- Mathew Varghese <mat...@em...> wrote:
> Dear Manoj,
> 
> 	I was thinking about any option to use the .ttf
> fonts in Linux, which are
> natively supported (that means the OS can support
> them without any tweak up.
> So we just need to copy them to the "Fonts"
> folder.)in Windows.

I am 'fraid working with fonts in Linux (or for that
matter any kind of Unix that uses X Windows) isn't all
that simple.

Here is a Mini-How-To on Fonts that I highly
recommend.
http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/mini-HOWTO/FDU/index.php3

You might also want to read up on "font servers" in
your favourite X-Windows documentation. Or search on
www.google.com/linux for more details.

> 
> Kindly advice something about "ttmkfdir". Is it a
> utility? 

Well here is what the sourceforge home page for
ttmkfdir at 
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttmkfdir/?topic_id=850
says about it.

<Quote>
ttmkfdir is a tool to create valid and complete
fonts.dir files from TrueType fonts. It is very useful
when you plan to use a TrueType enabled font server
that is based on the X11R6 sample implementation
(xfsft for instance). Great care has been taken to
correctly identify the encodings that a given TrueType
font supports
</Quote>

> Where can I get
> that and how can it be installed on Linux?

Depending on your distribution, it may already be
installed on your machine. If it isnt, you can always
download the appropriate verion for your distribution
from the usual sources. If you use a rpm based
distribution (RedHat, Mandrake etc) try
http://www.rpmfind.net/

Or you could get the sources from 
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttmkfdir/?topic_id=850

> 
> Thanks,

You'r welcome.
> 
> Mathew Varghese

Regards,
 Manoj.C