thanks a lot to Michael, Jordi, & Marc for comments. i didn't know that _just_ copying ttf fonts files to /usr/share/fonts/myfonts would work. i supposed that some re-formatting to be done ... Marc Le Jeudi 11 DÃcembre 2003 12:10, Marc Schwartz a Ãcrit : > 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 > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
