To build, type... ./configure make make install ---NOTES------------------------------------------------------------------------- IF YOU HAVE USED A PREVIOUS VERSION <=0.10b3 THEN PLEASE *REMOVE* YOUR PREVIOUS ~/.kde/share/config/kfontinstrc OR ~/.kde2/share/config/kfontinstrc FILE *BEFORE* RUNNING THIS NEW VERSION PLEASE ALSO APPLY THE CHANGES LISTED IN README.startkde TO YOUR startkde OR login SCRIPT - THIS IS NECCESSARY IN ORDER TO SET UP SOME ENV VARS SO THAT NON-ROOT USER FONTS MAY BE INSTALLED. If you have both Qt 1.X and 2.X you may need to set the environment variable QTDIR - i.e. for bash, export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt2 Likewise for KDE 1.x and 2.X, export KDEDIR=/opt/kde2 The program has the following limitations: 1. Speedo fonts are always installed as iso8859-1. How do I get an encoding for these? Should I just assume iso8859-1, or use the locale? 2. .Z compressed files are not supported - the program will ignore any .Z files. 3. Only XFree86 style X config (XF86Config) files, font-server config files, and KFontinst's custom file are supported - are there any other types? 4. AFM files only ever contain 256 chars - should I place all other chars in these? And use -1 as charcode? For TrueType fonts this could make these files *very* big. The current version of Qt will not allow you to print out using the extended encoding schemes (e.g. microsoft-cp1252) - as it has it's own inbuilt charactermaps. The only way to access other characters is to use Unicode encoding - however Qt creates bad postscript files when printing with Unicode installed fonts. Craig. p.s. For using StarOffice with European languages, I recommend using microsoft-cp1252, as this allows access to the Euro and "smart quotes" - and KFontinst comes with a modified xprinter.prolog file for StarOffice that will be used if the user selects microsoft-cp1252.