UNIX Fonts?

[Giridhar Manepalli]

Bob,
Because you said that you are not familiar with unix, I am just
curious what distribution are you actually using. The following email
is a generic way for installing fonts on a redhat machine. Let me
know, if you are not using redhat(or Fedora Core).

mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf

cp *.ttf to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf

cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf

ttmkfdir -o fonts.dir


On 4/21/05, Pericles S. Nacionales <nacional at cbs.umn.edu> wrote:
> Bob,
> 
> If you are using the core Microsoft fonts (arial, times new roman, courier
> new, verdana, etc.) then you can copy those fonts to your Unix machine.  You
> might want to have a look at Microsoft's license on the use of their fonts.
> I don't know about the licenses of any other Windows truetype fonts so you
> also might want to go back and read them before you make copies.  In general,
> many of these licenses only prevent you from modifying the fonts and/or
> selling them--no problem since you're only using it to display labels.
> 
> There are some free (I'm using the word loosely) fonts that you can use on
> Unix/Linux--Bitstream has the Vera fonts which is used by Gnome
> (http://www.gnome.org/fonts/), SIL International has Gentium
> (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium_download),
> Bigelow and Holmes has the Luxi fonts, and there are others.
> 
> The use of truetype fonts in MapServer is  the same for Windows as for
> Unix/Linux and Mac.   You don't need to install them on a system directory
> (e.g. /usr/share/fonts c:\windows\fonts) but you can put them in some other
> directory along with your MapServer font list (see
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/fontset.html).
> 
> Cheers!
> -Perry
> 
> On Wednesday 20 April 2005 11:07 pm, Bob Bruce wrote:
> > I am not knowledgeable about UNIX systems and am hoping that someone can
> > help me. I am in the process of migrating my MapServer MapScript pages to a
> > UNIX server from my Windows 2000 system and am having problems with fonts.
> > I don't know where to get the equivalent fonts to the ones that I have been
> > using on my Windows system and the manager of my hosting provider doesn't
> > seem to know this either. Can someone tell me how to go about getting fonts
> > for the UNIX system?
> >
> > thanks,
> >           Bob Bruce, Winnipeg, Manitoba
> 
> --
> Pericles S. Nacionales
> 
> Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
> University of Minnesota
> work: 612 624 6713
> e-mail: nacional at cbs.umn.edu
>