On Wednesday 03 August 2005 19:05, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Hi, all
I have almost 400 true type fonts that I've been using for years, since when I was a Windows user. I've been installed them successfully in every Linux distribution I've installed so far, including FC3. However, when I install them on FC4 (using KDE Control Center), no application (except OpenOffice) "sees" the fonts. OpenOffice sees them, but they display horribly, kind of low resolution, and the characters are so close from each other that they overlap. Firefox does'nt see the fonts, nor any other application. I tried to remove them and install manually (copied them to a directory, included it on X fonts path using chkfontpath, run fc-cache, ttmkfdir and mkfontdir, restarted xfs). No difference. For last, I've downloaded a RPM package with MS true type core fonts and tried to install it. Right after the installation, everything seemed ok, although I don't know what the rpm did that I didn't. However, after the first reboot, the same things happens: no application sees the fonts, except OpenOffice, in which they display wrong. If I install the fonts directly in OpenOffice (copying or linking them into oodir/share/fonts/truetype), they display ok in OOo, but obviously are not available for other applications. Anybody knows what may be happening?
Thanks,
Marcelo
Have a look at the file /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. There are the system wide directories which are searched for fonts. It should say something like ... <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF</dir> <dir>~/.fonts</dir> ... So, just drop your fonts inside one of these directories and run fc-cache inside it. Make also sure that your fonts have the right permissions (readable by all users). The command fc-list should list your new fonts then.
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