On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 10:29:51PM +0200, Ingolf Steinbach wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1. May 2002 15:29, Rui-Xiang Guo wrote:
> > 1) Try to remove the fonts.alias files, maybe it is redundant for Western
> > fonts.
> 
> This removes the aliasmonotype-* fonts from the list of available
> fonts, so I cannot give a comparison.

Well, if monotype-* fonts could work fine, you don't need the aliasmonotype-*
fonts. They are just the alias of monotype-*.
Do you still have problem with monotype-* fonts?

> > 2) Try 'xtt' module, to replace 'freetype' with 'xtt' in XF86Config file,
> >    then run mkttfdir without --freetype option.
> 
> kdm starts very slowly; later when I start xfontsel or the KDE font
> selection, the X server crashes.

Oh, too bad. Maybe there are too many fonts. :>

> > And could you please show me the output of this command?
> > % ttfinfo monotype-arial.ttf
> 
> TT_Open_Face failed with 8 for file monotype-arial.ttf

Oops, my fault. ;)
Could you please try again with following steps?
1. % cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/ ; grep '*onotype' fonts.scale
   - To find out the TTF name, like this:
   ???.ttf -monotype-*...
2. ttfinfo ???.ttf

> I have no knowledge wrt X fonts, and so do not know what the
> fonts.alias file is for; and why there are these aliasmonotype fonts
> and all that...

I also don't know much about this, but I could tell something:
As I say above, you don't need the fonts.alias if you could use your fonts
with many size. (It seems only necessary for Eastern fonts.)

-rxg