unruh

I have a number of machines I want to upgrade. to 2008.1 and want to
automate a bunch of the installation. One portion is to install a number of
extra fonts onto the systems ( eg for Use by Mathematica). In the old xfs
days I could just put them into /etc/X11/fs/config, and restart xfs.
However 2008.1 does not use xfs. I have no idea what it uses. How do I
install the bunch of fonts into the system without going through the tedium
of running drakefont on each system?

david w. hodgins

Copy the symlinks from /etc/X11/fontpath.d/ and the files that are the
targets of the symlinks.

In addition to copying the font files themselves, copy the fonts.dir and
fonts.scale, for each of the target directories, or run
cd /usr/share/fonts
find . -type d -exec mkfontscale {} \;
find . -type d -exec mkfontsdir {} \;
xset fp rehash

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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unruh

"David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> writes:

Sorry I am being dense. I have a bunch of fonts in
/usr/local/mathematica2/
(subdirectories AFM,BDF, Common and Type1)
HOw to I get the system to use them without using drakfont.
/etc/X11/fontpath.d only contains old files.

david w. hodgins

Now I'm getting confused! . My understanding, which appears to be wrong, was
that X (without xfs) only uses the fonts defined in /etc/X11/fontpath.d

From looking at /etc/font/*, and /var/cache/fontconfig, it seems that there is
more to it. I'll see if I can find current font do***entation.

Do the matematica2 fonts show up currently, for selection in an application
like kword?

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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