Re: importing Fonts : Windows to Fedora

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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
>
>
>
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