On 08/08/2007 06:00 PM, Bill wrote:
Hi folks,
It's been some time now since I've used my old copy of
WordPerfect 8.0 Personal Edition for Linux. I usually use
the OpenOffice suite these days.
However, I've been looking to install more fonts for
OpenOffice and make them accessible to other programs like
Gimp and Inkscape through X and defoma. I recalled that my
WordPerfect disk had a fine selection of fonts (130).
They're quite accessible on disk but I'm not sure how to
install them. (Basically they are .afm and .pfb files for
Type 1 fonts.)
I'm sure there must be a way to install and access these
fonts on a current linux distro. But I sure can't find it.
Everything I google relates to the 8.1 version.
Can anyone help me out here? Basically what I think I need
to know is how to tell defoma about the fonts so that it
recognizes them.
What do I need to do to find peace and happiness and
achieve enlightment?
tia,
b.
Install doc-linux-text and read /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Font-HOWTO.gz.
I think you would place the fonts into /usr/local/share/fonts/Type1/ .
Then go into that directory and do "mkfontscale . ; mkfontdir ."; after
that, add the font directory to /etc/X11/Xorg.conf.
That makes the fonts available to X. Fontconfig is another way of
dealing with fonts that I'm not too clear on, but I'm sure someone else
will explain it.
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