TrueType Fonts in Debian

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 05:22:51PM -0500, John McGregor wrote:
> William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>> I do have the MS fonts you suggest - the font I need is ITC Officina Sans, 
>> which I have purchased and put in its proper location (as far as I know
>> - /usr/share/fonts/truetye).
>>
>>
>>   FontPath   "unix/:7101"
>>   and   FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetye"
>>
>> Are both in my xorg.conf, and the freetype module is also enabled.  So
>> I'm a bit stuck/confused at this point.
>>
>> Thanks for the help so far though - any other thoughts?
>>   
> There is a spelling error in this line "
>
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetye"". Was that just in this email or did you maybe make the mistake in your path statement?

I only made that mistake in the email, but good catch.  The trick was
that had not set up the metadata in the truetype directory - I needed to
run mkfontscale and mkfontdir - once I did that, all was well.  Thanks
for the help.
-- 

yours,

William

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