[mgp-users 01427] Re: Truetype fonts

[Yoshifumi Nishida <nishida@csl.sony.co.jp>]

Hi, 
You need to use the tfont directive to use truetype fonts.
If your mgp does not understand tfont, you will get some
waring messages. And that means you need to build your mgp 
with freetype library.

Thanks,
--
Yoshifumi Nishida
nishida@csl.sony.co.jp


From: Keith Bates <kbates@pastors.com>
Subject: [mgp-users 01426] Truetype fonts
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:35:18 +1000
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 > Hi,
 > 
 > I recently changed machines that I'm running Magicpoint on and I can't
 > get fonts to work properly.
 > 
 > The old machine was running RH 7.1 and magicpoint 1.7 (I think)
 > 
 > I'm now running Debian and mgp 1.11b, so it's quite a jump.
 > 
 > I have .mgprc which says 
 > 
 > tfdir "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
 > 
 > I have font arial.ttf in /usr/share/fonts/truetype
 > 
 > But it doesn't show up as arial in the magicpoint presentation.
 > 
 > What do I need to do?
 > 
 > -- 
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 > 
 > 
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 > 
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