importing Fonts : Windows to Fedora
Marc Schwartz
MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com
Thu Dec 11 03:10:14 UTC 2003
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 20:50, Jordi Canals wrote:
> 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.
It's actually even easier than that. Create a folder called .fonts in
your home folder (/home/Your-User-Name/.fonts). Then copy the TTF files
there.
That's it. You are done.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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