UNIX Fonts?

[Bob Bruce]

Giridhar, Gregor, Pericles:

my UNIX hosting provider solved the problem, here is his message:

"Bob, the font issue is resolved and that test page now appears to work.
It was a bleepin' nightmare! I'll spare you the details... :)"

I have actually asked him for the details so I can supply them to the list
but maybe he actually used one of your suggestions. All I know is that I
left him with a web page that should have worked along with the font files
(from my Windows 2K system) that were all configured and this afternoon he
fixed.

thanks to everyone for your help,
                                   Bob Bruce, Winnipeg, Manitoba

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:30:59 -0400, Giridhar Manepalli <gmanepal at GMAIL.COM>
wrote:

>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
>> >
>>