Installing TTF fonts (for Oracle, what else?!)

[Carl Houseman]

I've got some Chinese fonts to install for Oracle Reports. Putting together bits and pieces of other writeups, I'm running into an error.

First, I did the steps to update the fonts.dir in /usr/X11/fonts/ms.st/typefaces as described here:
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=937114

Oracle is using Xvnc for rendering so I set my DISPLAY variable to the the Xvnc server and am attempting to modify the font path with the following:

xset fp= /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/iso_8859.1/100dpi/,/usr/lib
/X11/fonts/iso_8859.1/75dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/ms.st/typefaces/

But this command returns:

X Error of failed request: 86
Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath)
Serial number of failed request: 7
Current serial number in output stream: 9

Any ideas? Thanks everyone.

Carl

[Carl Houseman]

Did some more messing around, added the .../ms.st/typefaces/ font path to the vncserver script. Bottom line, Xvnc doesn't like it.
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Xvnc Free Edition 4.1.2 - built May 12 2006 18:16:06
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
Underlying X server release 0, unknown

Wed Apr 2 18:32:02 2008
vncext: VNC extension running!
vncext: Listening for VNC connections on port 5910
vncext: created VNC server for screen 0
error opening security policy file /usr/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ms.st/typefaces/, removing f
rom list!
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From an Exceed session, I can xset +fp the same path that Xvnc dislikes, and it does it without any error and returns the path for xset -q. But, having done that, I still can't get verification that the Chinese fonts are available with xlsfonts.

From what I can tell I'm not supposed to need a fonts.scale with truetype fonts.

So I need two things which may or may not be related:

1. I need to be able to add these fonts to the Xvnc path - newer version of Xvnc maybe?

2. Having added them I need them to verify with xlsfonts. The results from the Exceed session suggest more to be done with the fonts themselves.

Note that we aren't running xfs at all - have never needed it before to make Xvnc sessions work. Do we need it for this specifically?