Re: Hebrew Type1 font problem

"hermanmeester" <[email protected]> :

> I installed the fonts (which are PostScript Type1 fonts) in the 
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
>
> directory.
> First I just put the file, which was a tar.gz file, there as 
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/culmus-0.101.tar.gz
>
> This worked for a while. So I guess when importing the fonts, those
> files were automatically "unzipped"?

No, there is no automatic unpacking. This just cannot work.  You
should unpack the archive and copy the fonts to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/. By the way, you can also copy fonts
into the ~/.fonts directory in the home directory of a user. This
makes the fonts only available for that specific user, but it is often
convenient for testing.

> Later I installed a few Arabic Truetype fonts in the same way
> (except in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype of ocurse, but that
> didn't work. Apparently these were not unzipped ("de-compressed")
> automatically?

No, please uncompress the package and copy the fonts to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype, not the archive.

> Can free fonts just "expire"?

No.

> Then I also have some directory called
>
> /usr/share/fonts/he/Type1

> Here, "/he/" must stand for Hebrew.
> There, those fonts are also stored, I guess uncompressed.

That's why the Hebrew fonts worked for you although you copied only
archive to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/.  /usr/share/fonts is also
searched by default by fontconfig.  And, fontconfig searches
recursively, i.e. all subdirectories of /usr/share/fonts are searched
as well. The culmus-0.101.tar.gz in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ of
course could not work but as you say you had another copy of the
uncompressed fonts somewhere below /usr/share/fonts, this explains
why you could use these fonts.

> I didn't make that directory, I don't know who did ;-)

SuSE doesn't create that directory either, that means you must have
created yourself somehow, maybe by unpacking a tar-ball or installing
a non-SuSE rpm package.

-- 
Mike FABIAN   <[email protected]>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian



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