On Sunday 03 December 2006 08:38, François Patte wrote: > Anne Wilson a écrit : > > On Thursday 30 November 2006 13:11, François Patte wrote: > >>Anne Wilson a écrit : > >>>Following the instructions in > >>>http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Font-FAQ I am trying to add > >>>fonts to be globally available. I have created a folder and put my new > >>>fonts there. It then says I should create a text file > >>>called /usr/share/X11/fonts/local.conf, with the new folder added in the > >>>format > >>> > >>><dir> /usr/share/X11/fonts/NewFonts </dir> > >>> > >>>However, when I run 'fc-cache /usr/share/X11/fonts/NewFonts' I get the > >>>error > >>> > >>>Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 2: junk after document element > >> > >>I don't understand why they describe such a complicated method! I just > >>add directories in: > >>/usr/share/fonts/default/ > >> > >>then went into these directories and perform successively: > >> > >>ttmkfdir (if fonts are true type) > >>mkfontdir > >>fc-cache > >> > >>then run chkfontpath --add $PWD > >> > >>And that's all. > > > > I tried this method, Francois, and the new fonts were available to kword. > > However, they are not available to openoffice. I don't know why it > > should be so, but perhaps that's why they advocate their particular > > method. > > May be your problem is now solved, but I was out for sometimes. It is, thanks. > > I remenber that this method worked for openoffice only if I added my > font directories in /usr/share/fonts/default/ > > Before that, I tried to build my own "local" directories, something like: > > /opt/share/X11/fonts/... > > and the fonts were not available to OO. > Basically, I think that's the problem. It doesn't see the directory that was mentioned in the documentation (docs out-of-date?). I made a directory under /usr/share/fonts/ called newFonts to contain the ones I had added (makes it easier to back them up) and that works well. Thanks for answering Anne > > -- > François Patte > UFR de mathématiques et informatique > Université René Descartes > http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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