If you are working on a dual boot machine, you don't need to copy the files. I did it simply setting up symbolic links. And anyway as long as i have windows running, i even MIGHT have a license, am i wrong? martin Am Fr, den 12.12.2003 schrieb listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx um 23:09: > Hi there, > > SourceForge project mstcorefonts may be usefull to you. Beware that a font is > copyrighted work, so it may be forbidden to copy some of them to Linux (or any > other machine / OS) > > []s, Fernando Lozano > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Martin Bolte <mail@xxxxxxxxxx>
