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
