Bug 8907 – MS TrueType web fonts ebuild and tools

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description David Monk 2002-10-08 15:07:10 UTC]

I made a simple little ebuild that will download and install the MS TrueType 
fonts that are available from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
I mostly made it cause I prefer MS's Verdana font. All the tarball on the site 
contains are the two scripts, one that runs wget to download the fonts, then 
ttmkfdir to make the fonts.dir file, and the other to make the fonts.alias file.
It requires the user to add the path to /etc/X11XF86Config manually, but does 
tell how.
I wish to submit this as an intial package that could be useful. It could 
probably be improved greatly, and probably should be.

[Comment 1 David Monk 2002-10-08 15:08:36 UTC]

Created attachment 4529 [details]
ebuild, changelog and digest

These should be untarred to /usr/portage/x11-misc/

[Comment 2 David Monk 2002-10-08 15:09:44 UTC]

Created attachment 4530 [details]
The tar retreived by the ebuild containg the work scripts

I would much prefer this to eventually be hosted elsewhere, which will require
a change to the ebuild to accomplish.

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2002-10-08 15:33:45 UTC]

read /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/xfree-4.2.1.ebuild

[Comment 4 David Monk 2002-10-08 16:32:38 UTC]

Well then I retract my submission. So, take that! Ha!

No seriously, how does X find the fonts then. I may have missed something in my 
setup, but I did not see /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype, which is where 
these fonts live, in my XF86Config after setting things up. I followed the 
Desktop Guide in doing so.
I have seen a couple other users complain on IRC regarding poor fonts.
Another question along this line, the X setup doesn't seem to use xfs, yet xfs 
is installed.

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2002-10-10 00:01:40 UTC]

do you have 'truetype' in your USE variable ? 
 
also, by 'poor font quality' could you be more specific ? 
gtk1 apps dont utilize AA fonts for the most parts, so those will look horrible