On Sunday 15 May 2005 03:19 pm, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > James T. Carver said: > > adding them using XFS and using xfontsel > > does not add them to the free type cache. Firefox uses the free type > > fonts > > if it can find them. I have packaged several fonts in an RPM to install > > them > > on my FC3 box here and when I installed them they worked perfectly. > > Uhg. This stuff is supposed to get easier not harder. > > How do you create a font rpm and what is it about it that triggers the > freetype font cache thing? If I just modify a fonts-* xorg src.rpm will > that do it? > > Mike Mike, go to linux.org and look at the fonts howto page, thats where I finally figured out how to add the fonts I had collected so I could use them in Linux. the how to tells you how to make the RPM file... gives you everything you need to know. http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Font-HOWTO James
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