How to install true fonts
Release 1.0 July 24 2005
How does it works?:
1) Get the TT fonts form the net and copy them at /usr/share/fonts/ttf
2) create two empty files for the font system:
3) add the font path from step 3 to the font system:
4) restart the X font server (NB: this step must ALWAYS do in X Window; after restart, you are not able to see the new fonts yet)
5) logoff anh then login i X Window.
6) Check to see if the new fonts have been installed properly with "xlsfonts | grep XXX" and "cat ~/.fonts.cache-1 |grep XXX".
You can now see your new fonts with "kcharselect" (char-map), OpenOffice Write, kcmshell kde-fonts (configuration of font in KDE).
Voila & enjoy
Copenhagen 24th, July 2005, Tuan Nguyen
Fedora does not has a true type package in its distribution CDs (NB: the package ttfonts from rpmfind.net is a Macromedia fonts, some how I can not use it within the OpenOffice pack). Fortunetaly there are many sites, which offer true type fonts for just 0£, among them are http://www.grsites.com/fonts/ and
http://www.fontesgratis.com.br .
Here are the steps to install new fonts.
mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf
cp XXX /usr/share/fonts/ttf where XXX is the ttf files.
touch /usr/share/fonts/ttf/fonts.dir
touch /usr/share/fonts/ttf/fonts.scale
chkfontpath -a /usr/share/fonts/ttf
service xfs restart
nb: the name of the new installed fonts can be found by reading the test file "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/fonts.dir".