| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
What is the correct procedure for adding new fonts with V3? Under V2, I would just add the *.DECW$FONT files to the directory: SYS$COMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.USER_75DPI] (or one of the other appropriate font subdirectories). Then after restarting Decwindows the fonts were available. This procedure doesn't appear to work under V3. I am doing all this under the context of trying to get XCONQ to run. I'm running it from a remote machine, and I believe it was built with V2 libraries, but shouldn't it still be able to display on my workstation which is running V3? It is dying trying to find the xconq fonts. I have acquired a font listing program, and when it lists the fonts available on my workstation it does *not* show the xconq fonts which should be there. This is what makes me think I haven't added the fonts correctly. I even went so far as to rebuild the font files from the original .BDF files with the font compiler, but that didn't work either. I have searched the documentation, but I haven't seen anything that helps. Thanks for any help. Andy
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| 3724.1 | STAR::MCLEMAN | Jeff McLeman, VMS development | Wed Nov 28 1990 10:52 | 7 | |
As of V3, you must run SYS$SYSTEM:DECW$MKFONTDIR.EXE to create a data
file for the server to read upon starting. THis will allow the server
to now see those fonts. This will be documented in the next release
notes I believe.
Jeff
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| 3724.2 | SELECT::BENNETT | Wed Nov 28 1990 12:49 | 14 | ||
Thanks for the response. I now have the fonts installed. Just for the record, you have to set default to the font directory before you run decw$mkfontdir, and then restart decwindows. The exact sequence of steps for me was: $ copy *.decw$font sys$common:[sysfont.decw.user_75dpi] $ set def sys$common:[sysfont.decw.user_75dpi] $ run sys$system:decw$mkfontdir $ @sys$manager:decw$startup restart ! This blows away your session Thanks again, Andy | |||||
| 3724.3 | Preview of the release notes | STAR::VATNE | Peter Vatne, VMS Development | Wed Nov 28 1990 17:01 | 7 |
To install a new font, just do the following steps from a privileged account: $ copy *.decw$font sys$common:[sysfont.decw.user_75dpi] $ mkfontdir :== $decw$mkfontdir $ mkfontdir sys$common:[sysfont.decw.user_75dpi] Then just log out and log back in again. No need to restart DECwindows. | |||||