UNIX Fonts?

[Giridhar Manepalli]

Hey,
I mistakenly send the email, 

you need to 

chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart

Now make a list of all the fonts in a file and point this list in the map.

Regards,
Giridhar

On 4/21/05, Giridhar Manepalli <gmanepal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
>