[arch-general] Unable to add fonts to X
Sławomir Szczyrba
steev at hot.pl
Wed Apr 25 11:23:24 EDT 2012
Hi.
Try one of this :
1) create link to font folder inside /etc/X11/fontpath.d , restart X
2) copy/link font folder to /usr/share/fonts , restart X
3) copy font folder to ~/.fonts then do fc-cache -rv and check output for line like
'/home/n7dr/.fonts/n7dr: caching, new cache contents: 33 fonts, 0 dirs'
and as usually
4) avoid topposting ;)
Option 3 should work immediately, without restarting X...
Regards,
Slawek
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Dnia Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:56:33 -0600
"D. R. Evans" <doc.evans at gmail.com> napisał(a):
> 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
>
> ----
>
> 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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