On Friday 03 May 2002 12:10 pm, John Lamb wrote:

Login as root to KDE, then do

Preferences->System->Font Installer

This is a nifty tool that combines a few scripts and lets you install fonts for the System and SO 5.2 including TTF fonts. fetchmsttfonts is for fetching the free M$ fonts (Georgia etc). If you have a Windows partition, you can extract any fonts you want from there on /windows/C/System/fonts.

Now for a more interesting problem, but where does a guy get fonts from if he doesn't have a WinSnooze partion on my machine. Obviously, I could log into my wife's WinSnooze98 box and steal them, but is there a place where I could get them on the web? -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows XP or better'. So I installed Linux!

Philipp Thomas wrote:

Rob Blomquist [4.05.2002 17:10:06 -0700]:

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Obviously, I could log into my wife's WinSnooze98 box and steal them, but is there a place where I could get them on the web?

That's where fetchmsttfonts might help. I presume it's really just a link to http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm. The only really new and good font you'll get is Comic Sans. The rest are just standard fonts or ones for web pages. There are thousands of fonts out on the web but, Philipp is right: most of them are useless. I only use four of about a hundred fonts that came with M$ windows software. Try searching for specific terms, e.g. Plantin and Gill (or Gill Sans) make a nice pair. Palatino (or Book Antiqua) is nice. The B&H Lucida fonts are nice. They may come with StarOffice or Java. What you probably won't find are unusual but well designed fonts such as the London Underground font. JDL