How to add new fonts on AIX?
Frank O'Neill
Hi,
I'm having problems trying to install new fonts on my IBM RS/6000
running V3.2 of AIX. When I try to run a certain application, I get
the error:
font "*-Courier-Medium-R-Normal-*-120-*" doesn't exist
I did a "managefonts all" to install all fonts and it sees the Courier
family of fonts as being installed. managefonts generates various
.map and .out files in directories such as
/usr/lib/ps/ditroff.font/Courier/devpsc. I thought I might have to
do something like a mkfontdir at this stage, but mkfontdir expects
SNF or BDF files as its input. How do I generate these SNF or BDF
files from the files created by managefonts? What must I do to
add new fonts?
Thanks for any help,
Frank
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Ronald S. Woan
David L. Crow <cr...@austin.ibm.com> wrote:
>> /usr/lib/ps/ditroff.font/Courier/devpsc. I thought I might have to
> run mkfontdir, you then use the "xset" command to add font paths
> to you X server. By default, all of the installed font paths
> should be in your X server font path. Use "xset q" to verify.
More specifically the original post seemed to be adding PostScript
fonts. I haven't taken the time to look it, but I have been wondering
whether you still run mkfontdir if you add Type 1 fonts to
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1.
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David L. Crow
>More specifically the original post seemed to be adding PostScript
>fonts. I haven't taken the time to look it, but I have been wondering
>whether you still run mkfontdir if you add Type 1 fonts to
>/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1.
Yes. mkfontdir links with the server internal library libfont.a
which gives it the necessary smarts for all known supported font
types. The high-level "know what fonts I have" server (X and font
server) routines need a fonts.dir for every directory you have in
your font path.
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David L. Crow
> family of fonts as being installed. managefonts generates various
> .map and .out files in directories such as
> /usr/lib/ps/ditroff.font/Courier/devpsc. I thought I might have to
Are you trying to add fonts for use with the text formatters or
with the X server? I believe that the directory that you quoted
would be used for the text formatters. It definitely would not be
used for the X server.
The fonts for the X server are located in /usr/lib/X11/fonts and
the subdirectories there. If you add fonts to these directories,
you need to run "mkfontdir" on those directories. This should be
done when you install the X11rte* and X11fnt* packages (these are
the only X packages that contain fonts).
Once you have the actual font files in the directories and have
run mkfontdir, you then use the "xset" command to add font paths
to you X server. By default, all of the installed font paths
should be in your X server font path. Use "xset q" to verify.