James T. Carver said: > 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, > > 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 Nice link. The part I missed was running /usr/bin/fc-cache. I bet that does what freetype needs. Thanks, Mike
