Bug 9355 – x11-base/xfree not all encodings in fonts/truetype/fonts.dir

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Arkadi Shishlov 2002-10-19 17:56:34 UTC]

TT fonts installed by xfree package in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype are
outdated or broken or something else. These fonts are from free Microsoft Web
Font Collection (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm;
recently pulled from MS website; there can be licensing problems). But, fonts
are not the same fonts I downloaded from MS a year ago. Original (xfree package)
listing:
  77448 Oct 17 15:57 arialbd.ttf
  84012 Oct 17 15:57 arialbi.ttf
  73208 Oct 17 15:57 ariali.ttf
  75896 Oct 17 15:57 arial.ttf
 103992 Oct 17 15:57 ariblk.ttf
  55892 Oct 17 15:57 comicbd.ttf
  63040 Oct 17 15:57 comic.ttf
  94140 Oct 17 15:57 courbd.ttf
  94440 Oct 17 15:57 courbi.ttf
  91952 Oct 17 15:57 couri.ttf
  86048 Oct 17 15:57 cour.ttf
   2141 Oct 17 15:57 fonts.dir
   2141 Oct 17 15:57 fonts.scale
  60268 Oct 17 15:57 georgiab.ttf
  68172 Oct 17 15:57 georgiai.ttf
  62804 Oct 17 15:57 georgia.ttf
  69552 Oct 17 15:57 georgiaz.ttf
 126056 Oct 17 15:57 impact.ttf
  97824 Oct 17 15:57 monotype.ttf
  93880 Oct 17 15:57 timesbd.ttf
  87276 Oct 17 15:57 timesbi.ttf
  90072 Oct 17 15:57 timesi.ttf
  94964 Oct 17 15:57 times.ttf
  56576 Oct 17 15:57 trebucbd.ttf
  55828 Oct 17 15:57 trebucbi.ttf
  62484 Oct 17 15:57 trebucit.ttf
  57428 Oct 17 15:57 trebuc.ttf
  53816 Oct 17 15:57 verdanab.ttf
  57012 Oct 17 15:57 verdanai.ttf
  52720 Oct 17 15:57 verdana.ttf
  59636 Oct 17 15:57 verdanaz.ttf
 113536 Oct 17 15:57 webdings.ttf
My listing:
 105468 Dec 18  2001 andalemo.ttf
 286620 Dec 18  2001 arialbd.ttf
 224692 Dec 18  2001 arialbi.ttf
 206132 Dec 18  2001 ariali.ttf
 275572 Dec 18  2001 arial.ttf
 117028 Dec 18  2001 ariblk.ttf
 111476 Dec 18  2001 comicbd.ttf
 126364 Dec 18  2001 comic.ttf
 311508 Dec 18  2001 courbd.ttf
 234788 Dec 18  2001 courbi.ttf
 244156 Dec 18  2001 couri.ttf
 302688 Dec 18  2001 cour.ttf
  40183 Dec 18  2001 fonts.dir
 139584 Dec 18  2001 georgiab.ttf
 156668 Dec 18  2001 georgiai.ttf
 142964 Dec 18  2001 georgia.ttf
 158796 Dec 18  2001 georgiaz.ttf
 136076 Dec 18  2001 impact.ttf
 333900 Dec 18  2001 timesbd.ttf
 238612 Dec 18  2001 timesbi.ttf
 247092 Dec 18  2001 timesi.ttf
 330412 Dec 18  2001 times.ttf
 123828 Dec 18  2001 trebucbd.ttf
 131188 Dec 18  2001 trebucbi.ttf
 139288 Dec 18  2001 trebucit.ttf
 126796 Dec 18  2001 trebuc.ttf
 136032 Dec 18  2001 verdanab.ttf
 154264 Dec 18  2001 verdanai.ttf
 139640 Dec 18  2001 verdana.ttf
 153324 Dec 18  2001 verdanaz.ttf
 118752 Dec 18  2001 webdings.ttf
Notice the difference in font file sizes and fonts.dir. fonts dir generated by
Mandrake ttmkfdir, see Gentoo bug #9354; contains many encodings usefull for
people living in non-English speaking countries. I archived my font directory
including fonts.dir at http://kvin.lv/arkadi/.tmp/mswebfonts.tar (5.5Mb). Please
use fonts from this archive.

[Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-10-20 02:11:41 UTC]

Please check xfree-4.2.1, as it use the latest.

[Comment 2 Arkadi Shishlov 2002-10-20 11:50:15 UTC]

fonts.dir should provide more encodings, not only iso8859-1, cause these are
Unicode fonts.

[Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-10-20 13:26:30 UTC]

Well, it should be fixed in xfree-4.2.1 in a bit (after testing), but in
general here is what you should do to generate fonts.dir files for TT fonts:

 # cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings
 # mkfontdir -n -e . -e large -- .
 # cd ../truetype
 # ttmkfdir2 -e ../encodings/encodings.dir -o fonts.scale -d .
 # mkfontdir -e ../encodings -e ../encodings/large -- .

The first two commands is only needed if you do not have the encodings.dir
file.