Subject: Re: fonts
From: John M. Wright (jmw@chem.ucsd.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 00:15:04 MST
.ttf files may be .ttf files, but the downloadable files from
the microshaft.com web page are not .ttf files; they are self-extracting,
self-installing files that run under windowsXX[YY] The [font]32.exe
versions available for Win9X, NT, Win2000 cannot be extracted by
unzip, gunzip, or bunzip2. After some sloshing around on Google,
I found the following web page:
http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php3
which provided the source and (easy) instructions for compiling and
installing cabextract, which _can_ extract the .ttf files from the
[font]32.exe files downloaded from the microshaft web page. (It even
has an option to lowercase the .tif filenames.)
I followed the recipe provided by Avinash Gupta, and everything
seemed to work as advertised. The disparity in directories is
probably just a matter of some softlinks...
I have not yet decided if I like the result, but that is another
story....
John Wright
> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 13:57:53 -0500 (EST)
> From: "nathan r. hruby" <nhruby@arches.uga.edu>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: fonts
>
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Geert Janssens wrote:
>
> > Hrm, not so easy as it looks at first. :-(
> >
> > You suggested to download Areal, Verdana, Courrier and Times. Well, all
> > but Verdana are only available for Win 9x/NT and MacOS, not for Win 3.11.
> >
> > What now ?
> >
>
> .ttf files are .ttf files, they are (as far as windows is concerned)
> version agnostic. I typically just add /mnt/dos/windows/fonts to my
> fontpath in X and run happily (well.. something things choke but 1400
> fints will do that :)
>
> MacOS fonts are different becasue the font files have a different
> structure. There a several mac utilites that will convert a mac fint file
> into a ttf file (and vice versa) which you may want to try. I'v e never
> had too much luck with them though.
>
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