[arch-general] Unable to add fonts to X

[D. R. Evans]

Any more thoughts as to how I can add these fonts? Or at least diagnose why
I receive error #37 when I try to add them?

Or where there is an X-specific mailing reflector where I can ask this
question?

I can't progress with my project until these fonts are working under X :-(

  Doc

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D. R. Evans said the following at 04/23/2012 05:34 PM :
> I couldn't find a more appropriate place to ask this question. Please feel
> free to point me to such a place if one exists.
> 
> ----
> 
> Using a completely up-to-date 32-bit arch system, I am trying to make some
> fonts available to X.
> 
> My understanding of the process is:
> 
> 1. Put the fonts in a directory.
> 2. Since these are scalable fonts, run mkfontscale in the directory.
> 3. Run mkfontdir in the directory.
> 4. run xset +fp <directory name>
> 
> So what I did:
> 
> 0. Created the directory ~/.fonts.
> 1. Put the fonts in ~/.fonts.
> 
> At this point the contents of the directory looks like this (sorry about
> the wrapping):
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 n7dr users   39 Apr 22 17:08 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf ->
> /home/n7dr/fonts/CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 n7dr users   34 Apr 22 17:08 N7DR_SFTT1000.afm ->
> /home/n7dr/fonts/N7DR_SFTT1000.afm
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 n7dr users   34 Apr 22 17:08 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb ->
> /home/n7dr/fonts/N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb
> 
> 2. Ran mkfontscale in ~/.fonts.
> 
> This created the file fonts.scale, which had the following contents:
> 
> 33
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ascii-0
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp437
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp850
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp852
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp866
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-10
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-13
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-4
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-5
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-8
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-e
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-r
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-ru
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-u
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-uni
> CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-microsoft-cp1252
> N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard
> N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0
> N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1
> N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
> N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9
> N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r
> N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-ru
> N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-u
> N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern
> n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1252
> 
> 3. Ran mkfontdir in ~/.fonts.
> 
> This created the file fonts.dir, which was identical to fonts.scale.
> 
> 4. One piece of documentation I read said that X automatically includes
> ~/.fonts in its path, but running
>   xset q
> did not include ~/.fonts in the directory list.
> 
> So I ran:
>   xset +fp /home/n7dr/.fonts
> 
> But now we come to the problem. This command returns:
> 
> xset:  bad font path element (#37), possible causes are:
>     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>     Directory missing fonts.dir
>     Incorrect font server address or syntax
> 
> But:
> a. the directory obviously exists, and it has permissions rwx for the user.
> b. The directory contains the file fonts.dir
> c. The syntax looks OK.
> 
> So what is xset complaining about?
> 
> (I suspect that the problem lies in the *contents* of fonts.dir, since if I
> create a dummy version of the file, I don't receive the error. But since
> the file was automatically created, I don't know what might be wrong, nor
> how to correct it. Maybe my suspicion is wrong, though.)
> 
>   Doc
> 


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