importing Fonts : Windows to Fedora

[Jordi Canals]

On dj, 2003-12-11 at 02:18, marc wrote:
> Hello all, 
> 
> i work on a dual boot WinXP/Fedora desktop.
> i know there is a possibility in importing fonts from Windows to Fedora or 
> other Linux, but i cannot find it using my doc and browsers ... 
> 
> 1. could somebody indicate me the operations to do ? 

That's what I've done to get my TrueType Windows Fonts available to X11
:

Just copied the fonts to the folder /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
with this copy, I get the fonts for OpenOffice and Gimp (i.e.) but they
are not present on Mozilla and cannot see them on Nautilus going to the
fonts:/// folder.

So, to get them on Mozilla or on the fonts:/// folder, I've created the
folder /usr/share/fonts/windows-fonts and copied again the fonts to this
folder. Then edited the file /usr/share/fonts/fonts.cache-1 to include
the following line:

"windows-fonts" 0 ".dir"

I don't know if it is the best way to install the windows fonts, but
this worked for me and I had no time to investagate more abuit it.

Hope this helps ... I'm newbie at linux and cannot help more by now.

Regards,
Jordi.