Re: New: bitstream-vera-fonts

[Zvezdan Petkovic <zvezdan@CS.WM.EDU>]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 06:13:07PM -0700, Michael Schubert wrote:
> >I've copied the local.conf file to /etc/fonts/ as instructed. To further
> >debug, I've tried adding the path dir directly, a la,

You want to run fc-cache after that too.  Otherwise your new scalable
fonts will not be seen by programs using the new xft font scheme.

> >$ xset fp+ /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/

Shouldn't this be
	$ xset fp+ /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/some-subdirectory/

If you did that correct see below.

> >xset:  bad font path element (#56), possible causes are:
> >    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> >    Directory missing fonts.dir
> >    Incorrect font server address or syntax

Perhaps you left fonts.dir with 600 permissions?

Besides, xset works only with applications that use non-scaled variant
of you fonts corresponding to the 15 year old system:
	-misc-fixed-medium-r-*...

For the new xft scalable (and if you like anti-aliased) fonts with
simple names like Lucida Sans, you need to have /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
and perhaps /etc/fonts/local.conf files, and, as I said above, you
_must_ run fc-cache.

Regards,
-- 
Zvezdan Petkovic <zvezdan@cs.wm.edu>
http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/