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I have a RH 7.1 system with KDE 2.1.1. I wanted to improve the fonts in openoffice, so I copied the tt fonts on my Windows XP system into a new directory on my linux KDE workstation, /usr/share/fonts/truetype, and used the spadmin command as described in OO help to install them. It worked and Openoffice reads these fonts fine.

I then tried to make these fonts accessible to other applications. When I check the font paths on my desktop, I get the following:

[root@localhost program]# chkfontpath
Current directories in font path:
1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
8: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
9: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
10: /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType
11: /usr/share/fonts/ja/TrueType
12: /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts
13: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled
14: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1
15: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi
16: /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/misc:unscaled
17: /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/75dpi:unscaled
18: /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/100dpi:unscaled
19: /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/misc
20: /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/Type1
21: /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/75dpi
22: /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/100dpi
23: /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/misc:unscaled
24: /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/100dpi:unscaled
25: /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/misc
26: /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/100dpi
27: /usr/share/fonts/KOI8-R/100dpi:unscaled
28: /usr/share/fonts/KOI8-R/100dpi

Are there any obsolete fonts (out of 28 directories of fonts!) here I should delete? I no longer use Abiword (I prefer open office), maybe that's one.

RH does not use fc-cache.
When I try to add the above new directory to my font path, I get this error:

[root@localhost program]# chkfontpath --add /usr/share/fonts/truetype
chkfontpath: error opening /usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir, unwilling to add path

According to the Red Hat documentation "you must have a fonts.dir file in place for chkfontpath to work".
Is this some sort of RH thing? Should I have copied the tt fonts to one of the 28 directories on the above list (they all have a fonts.dir file)?
I would appreciate any explanation of the error or advice how to proceed with this.


Greg

I thought I must have overlooked the obvious thing (again!) but this time I did not. The documentation says you do:

Control Center->System->Font Installer

However in my version KDE 2.1.1 there is no Font Installer.

In fact I generally like the KDE fonts and do not HAVE to have the additional tt fonts; but is there a way to add them without font installer- maybe just copy them to one of the directories that are currently recognized as a source of fonts?

greg

Thanks for these comments.

a. version of XFree:
README for XFree86[tm] 4.0.3, it says What is XFree86 4.0.3? XFree86 4.0.3 is the first
update to 4.0.2, the third full release in the new
XFree86 4 series.
In Control Centre/Information/X-server , Vendor release no is 4003; Version No 11.0
(As already noted, I have RH 7.1 and KDE 2.1.1)

b. xsftt: I looked at xsftt; given that I already have a font server xfs, will
this one work without interfering with the existing one?

While looking at this question I found another lead on RH font installation, how to get
the fonts.dir made:
ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale
mkfontdir

This worked; then I could add the fonts to the X-server with
chkfontpath --add /usr/share/fonts/truetype this also worked

So now the tt fonts are in their own directory, that is recognised by the X-server. In the
Konqueror browser, they appear under /settings/appearance and I
think are accessed correctly, BUT, when I try to add them to a KDE application (eg I am
using kedit) or add them in kcontrol "select font-control centre", the
new fonts are not visible. I am offered default, 4 iso8* type character sets, and 2 koi8*
character sets; but I am fairly sure the new fonts are not accessed.

It seems now when I try to adjust fonts with kcontrol, the xfs hangs up; otherwise the system is fine. Here I try to show settings:

[root@localhost /root]# ps ax | grep xfs
1090 ? S 0:00 xfs -droppriv -daemon

[root@localhost /root]# xset -q
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00
000000
auto repeat delay: 660 repeat rate: 25
auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
fa9fffffffdfe5ff
ffffffffffffffff
ffffffffffffffff
bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
Pointer Control:
acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 0 cycle: 600
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel:
16777215
Font Path: /home/greg/.kde/share/fonts/override,unix/:7100,/home/greg
/.kde/share/fonts
Font cache:
hi-mark (KB): 1024 low-mark (KB): 768 balance (%): 70


Greg