[MPlayer-users] fonts?

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue Jan 28 23:00:02 CET 2003


On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:36:59PM +0100, Zoltan Ponekker wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Hali
> 
> > I'm running mplayer 0.90rc3 RPM 3.1, and when I start gmplayer I get the
> > following error: "NewFace failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply
> > the thext font file ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf"
> > This file is nowhere to find in any of my filesystems... how can I fix this?
> 
> Eh. Copy one ttf your windows partitions to ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf ...

Or copy a Type1 font from your X11 or ghostscript dirs. These are
actually free and look much nicer than the horrible windows fonts
anyway (for example compare Helvetica/Nimbus Sans to Arial).

Rich



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