Re: Friendly warning about Train Net awards

[Michael <mk@netstra.com.au>]

Hi,

Thanks for that info, i will bear it in mind next time i get to an X 
console :) p.s. I do not use deadrat! I'm a slackware boy!

Regards
Michael

Rob Kearey said on 13-Oct-1999 in <3803C4FC.7FD81DED@mailbox.uq.edu.au>:

>Michael wrote:
>
>> My only problem with using image utils under linux was the lack of
>> available typefaces. Do you know of any programs that can perhaps 
convert
>> Windows TTF's or Mac fonts to a X font? (Okay, thing's may have changed,
>> it's been well over 12 months since I've even delved into the lovely 
world
>> of X).
>
>Warning: Nerdity approaching, slightly RedHat-esque. Dive, Dive Dive!
>
>Most of that major distributions now use a font server like xfs, which
>can render TrueType fonts using the freetype engine. It's simply a
>matter of copying the TTF fonts into a new directory under the fonts dir
>like so :
>
>/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
>
>and then running the following
>
>ttmkfdir > fonts.dir
>
>and then restarting xfs - it's best to close X before you do this.
>
>> Michael.
>