On Wednesday 11 January 2006 21:55, Simon Roberts wrote:
Hi All,
I'm trying to install a postscript font. Mainly I need it to print correctly, but obviously it would be nice if it would be used by the preview tools too.
However, I can't make it work at all. I have several copies of the font in different formats:
GnuMICR.afm GnuMICR.pfa GnuMICR.pfm GnuMICR.ttf GnuMICR.otf GnuMICR.pfb GnuMICR.raw
I can look at them in Konqueror, and I get a preview from any/all of them (except the metrics files). Then if I right click on them in Konqueror, and pick "actions-> install" it prompts me whether to install for system or local--I've tried both. There are no error messages generated, but I find:
if I let it install GnuMICR.otf for system use, then gs crashes trying to view a document that uses the font.
any other installation goes utterly unnoticed
I guess it's possible (though seems unlikely since the preview works) that the GnuMICR.otf file is corrupt, but how can I get the postscript system (printing above all) to notice these fonts? Any one of them would be fine.
Thanks in advance for any ideas! Cheers, Simon
Simon, The easiest thing, I would suggest, is to drop the appropriate font into your system fonts directory. The YaST2 install procedure is nice and I've used it before, but I find the direct approach is easier for me.
If you want to use Truetype (.ttf), then put the GnuMICR.ttf font into your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype directory. I think the Type1 font would be better, so drop both the .afm & .pfb files into your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 directory. Do not install more than one type! After putting the correct font files into the correct directory, run /sbin/SuSEconfig from a shell as root. That should make it available, but sometimes it doesn't, so you may have to restart X. The best way to do that is ctrl-alt-F1, login as root, init 3, then init 5 to get back to kde. That should give you the font system wide. regards, Lee