Hi all, Is there some way to use True Type Fonts under Linux? How to configure it? I have tried that unsuccessfully using KFontinst and selecting a font path in Sax2. Thank you very much in advance, Luis Pablo Gasparotto _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Is there some way to use True Type Fonts under Linux? How to configure it?
I have tried that unsuccessfully using KFontinst and selecting a font path in Sax2. Sure, this is the correct way. But /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.fonts on 7.1 (which is always run by YaST 1) screws up the fonts.dir files.
Either delete the file (/sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.fonts), back it up (don't put the backup in /sbin/conf.d/) , try to fiddle through the script or upgrade your YaST version (I'm not completely sure but I think upgrading works) I'm a native ISO-8859-9 (Turkish) and this way the international fonts do work ! Btw. the original kfontinst from 7.1 is kinda buggy and I replaced the files of the distro RPM with the home-compiled ones (version 0.93) This works for me quite well... Koray
Luis Pablo Gasparotto wrote:
Hi all,
Is there some way to use True Type Fonts under Linux? How to configure it?
Use this package and the command "fetchmsttfonts" to install Microsoft TT fonts (directly from MS website). Check the SuSE SDB (sdb.suse.de) for "TRUETYPE" (note that as of SuSE Linux 7.2 the mentioned package fully automates the process described in an earlier SDB article)! mha@tyche:~/private_html/NEW-support-oracle/instructions > rpm -qil xf86tools-0.1-27 Name : xf86tools Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.1 Vendor: SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany Release : 27 Build Date: Tue 05 Jun 2001 08:24:18 AM PDT Install date: Thu 21 Jun 2001 01:11:41 PM PDT Build Host: amdsim8.suse.de Group : X11/XFree86 Source RPM: xf86tools-0.1-27.src.rpm Size : 32017 License: Stefan Dirsch Packager : feedback@suse.de Summary : Tools for XFree86 Description : Some useful tools for XFree86. Contains the script 'fetchmsttfons' to download Truetype Fonts. Authors: -------- Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@suse.de> SuSE series: x /usr/X11R6/bin/fetchmsttfonts /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86debug /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86version /usr/bin/cabextract /usr/share/doc/packages/xf86tools /usr/share/doc/packages/xf86tools/NEWS /usr/share/doc/packages/xf86tools/README /usr/share/man/man1/cabextract.1.gz
Another way that works (once you have the font server working) is to go to your windows partition or windows box on the network (assuming you have access to one) and either add the dir to your font path. Or take the simple route like I did and click the font dir in the file manager, select all, then drag and drop links of the windows .ttf files in your linux font dir. When you do that, all the fonts will appear in your application font dialogs. Since I use Word Perfect Office 2k, all those fonts appear in all the app dialogs for all the word perfect applications. Pretty nice too since Word Perfect shows you a sample sentence using each font as you pass the mouse over it. Should work for any app that supports true type fonts though. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Hasenstein" <mha@suse.com> To: <luispagasparotto@yahoo.com> Cc: "SLE" <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:26 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] Using True Type fonts
Luis Pablo Gasparotto wrote:
Hi all,
Is there some way to use True Type Fonts under Linux? How to configure
it?
Use this package and the command "fetchmsttfonts" to install Microsoft TT fonts (directly from MS website). Check the SuSE SDB (sdb.suse.de) for "TRUETYPE" (note that as of SuSE Linux 7.2 the mentioned package fully automates the process described in an earlier SDB article)!
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