[genelake]

I am a newbie with a dual-boot WinXP/RedHat8 computer.

I want to install the MS TrueType fonts in Red Hat 8. I have googled all over the net, including this site, and the easiest instructions I have found are at
http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/redhat...truetype.html.

The TrueType fonts are in a WinXp folder on my machine labeled: c:\winnt\fonts. However, when I use the c:\winnt\fonts name in the "cp" command it says 'no file or directory'.

Obviously I am getting the WinXp name wrong or formatted incorrectly.

Help please.

-Gene-

[genelake]

Correct link is:

http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/redhat..._truetype.html

Sorry about that.

-Gene-

[genelake]

My post won't accept my link. Too long I guess.

-Gene-

[lynch]

That is the easiest way to do it,AFAIK.
Is XP formatted as ntfs or fat32?Unless you added the ntfs module yourself you cant cp anything from /C: because RH doesnt support ntfs.If it's formatted as fat32 then you should be able to mount the drive and cp from it.It's probably not named /c though.Void main has called the mount point on his machine /c.Yours is different.Take a look in /etc/fstab to see:[list=1][*]If you even have an entry for xp[*]What it's called(the second field will tell you)[/list=1]
Should be an entry somthing like this:

/dev/hda3 /mnt/windows vfat noauto,user,sync 0 0

The /dev/hda3 and /mnt/windows I'm just guessing at.The 2nd field(in bold) is the mount point.If it's there you can type:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt/windows
You could also try burning the fonts from xp on to a cd-r and cp them from the cd-r to the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF directory.
HTH
lynch

[genelake]

LYNCH...thanks for your reply...I can always count on you for an answer.

My WinXp OS is NTFS...so I guess I am out of luck with this approach.

I went back looking on the net and found this site: http://feenix.burgiss.net/ldp/fdu. In section 4.1 of his essay he's talking about TrueType fonts for Red Hat 8. He points to another web site: hppt://vigna.dsi.unimi.it/webFonts4Linux which has the TrueType fonts and a script to load them. I went there and downloaded CABEXTRACT and his tool to obtain and install the fonts.

I executed his script and downloaded the fonts into /usr/share/fonts/monotype/TrueType. At the end of his script he executed the 'chkfontpath' command. On the 'vigna' web site he says to make sure the TrueType fonts are enabled. He says the 'feenix.burgiss.net says how to do this. I can't find how to do this.

The TrueType fonts aren't activated. Same old fonts. I did a xfs restart. Didn't help. A reboot didn't help, either. I am apparently not pointing to the fonts properly.

Help, please.

-Gene-

[lynch]

Say's here that,:

"A bug in RedHat 8.0 makes the X server lose the connection to the font server if the font server is restarted instead of reloaded. That will cause assorted strange behaviour (changed fonts in newly opened applications, applications hanging). Logging out and logging in again will solve the problems, or just use 'reload' instead of 'restart'."

Have you tried that?
I'll keep looking around.
Good luck
lynch

[genelake]

LYNCH...thanks for your reply.

I did try to 'reload' XFS...didn't make any difference.

I have been re-reading the web site I mentioned above and he is talking about making sure the TrueType fonts are first in line in the 'font path'. I found a directory called '/etc/X11/fs/config' which has comments in it such as 'default font server configuration file' and 'where to look for fonts'. It contains entries under the heading of 'catalogue' such as
'/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled' there are about 7 of these entries and then
'/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF'.

Should the 'TTF' entry be moved to the top?

Did the 'chkfontpath' command in the script put the 'TTF' in that directory?

Just wondering! I don't know what I'm doing!

Thanks!

-Gene-

[lynch]

Did some more looking.This thread seems to suggest other ways of getting the fonts to work.
I may try one of the methods on my guinea pig box that's running SuSE.Dont know if it will help as I think every other distro provides you with TTF except Redhat
HTH
lynch

[genelake]

Have been trying everything I know how and reading every HOWTO I can find on the True Type fonts subject but still no luck. Don't have the True Type fonts.


I thought maybe that an updated version of my Mozilla browser might be the answer. I tried to download and install version 1.3 of Mozilla. I couldn't get the job done. Yea, I know I'm an idiot.

So, I thought maybe I'll try the Konqueror browser...who knows, maybe it'll make a different. So I launched it...and lo and behold I have the most beautiful True Type fonts you would ever want to see. Looks just as good or better than my WinXp True Type fonts.

So I guess the old version of Mozilla was the problem all along.

Thanks for the help! -Gene-

[lynch]

If you're happy with it...
Could very well have been Mozilla.And you're not an idiot,idiots dont get this far....
lynch

[genelake]

LYNCH...thanks for all your help!

I just re-sized my Red Hat partition with Partition Magic (great product, BTW) and made some room for another Linux distro. I think I will try Libernet.

More questions to follow!

-Gene-