[svlug] TrueType fonts please?

[Drew Bloechl]

Well, I've been using a package called xfstt for a while now and it works
great.  I get the fonts under any app I like (although I'm not so sure
about the Gimp's antialiasing I've heard so much about...)  I just grabbed
the debian package from... <insert searching sounds here>
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/x11/xfstt_0.9.10-6.deb
and installed it and off I went.  The truetype fonts are filed in the
-ttf-* foundry or something like that.  

On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 dante at lorenso.com wrote:

> Y'all,
> 
> My fonts suck.  Anyone know if Redhat or somebody is planning to add
> support for True Type fonts any time soon?  I'm thinking that this 
> should probably be something that is built into the X server, but 
> I've also seen separate font servers available out there.  I know 
> you GIMP crazed people know how to do this, and I'm sure there is
> probably a HOWTO or a FAQ, but I don't want to go through all the
> trouble of learning all this (I'm lazy).  
> 
> Anyone know if I can get an RPM or if Redhat is planning to make a
> font server one of the items launched from /etc/rc.d/init.d ...?
> In other words, I'm running redhat 5.2 with 1.0 gnome.  Can someone
> tell me in four steps or less how to get True Type fonts with GIMP?
> 
> Example:
> 
> 	1) download ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx/ttf-server.rpm
> 	2) rpm -i ttf-server.rpm
> 	3) /usr/bin/ttfserver &
> 	4) run gimp
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> Dante
> 
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> 
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