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   2  $Id: INSTALL,v 1.1 2002/12/12 15:09:05 peterlin Exp $
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   5          Installing the Free UCS outline fonts
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   8  
   9  These installation notes are supposed to provide a helpful guidance
  10  through the process of installation of free UCS outline fonts. They
  11  can probably be significantly improved. Please direct your comments,
  12  suggestions for improvements, criticisms etc. to Primoz PETERLIN
  13  <[email protected]> and thus help improve them.
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  15  
  16  1. UNIX/GNU/Linux/BSD Systems
  17  
  18  The rather awkward "UNIX/GNU/Linux/BSD" agglomeration is used to
  19  denote any system capable of running XFree86 server with FreeType
  20  <http://www.freetype.org/>, a high-quality free font rasterizer.
  21  
  22  1.1 The rough way
  23  
  24  Unfortunately, hardly any other way exists at the moment.
  25  
  26  1) Fetch the freefont-ttf.tar.gz package with Free UCS outline fonts
  27     in the TrueType format.
  28  
  29  2) Unpack TrueType fonts into a suitable directory,
  30     e.g. /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType/.
  31  
  32  3) If you have chosen any other directory, make sure the directory you
  33     used to install the fonts is listed in the path searched by the X
  34     Font Server. Append the directory to the "catalogue=" in the
  35     /etc/X11/fs/config.
  36  
  37  4) Run ttmkfdir in the directory where you unpacked the fonts.
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  39  
  40  1.2 Debian GNU/Linux
  41  
  42  Users of Debian GNU/Linux system will probably want to use the
  43  pre-packed Debian package, as available from the Debian site, 
  44  <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-freefont.html>, or
  45  any of its mirrors. You can install them by issuing the command
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  47  apt-get install ttf-freefont
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  49  
  50  2. Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
  51  
  52  To be written.
  53  
  54  
  55  3. MacOS
  56  
  57  To be written.