On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:45:12 -0400, Doug wrote: > On 9/28/2010 6:18 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>> No installation privileges needed. Just drop (copy/paste) all your MS >> *.ttf font into your user's "~/.fonts" folder and you're done :-) >> >> >> > Because I have several Linux distros as well as WinXP on one computer, I > can search (from Linux) and find a C:\Windows\Fonts directory, with > *.ttf files, so I suppose I could copy all of these into some Linux > directory. Yes. > Looking in Debian squeeze, there are /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ and then > some subdirectories like /freefont, /dejavu /liberation, and a couple of > others, with differing numbers of fonts in each. Dejavu has 21 > variations, the most. > > Looking in Ubuntu 10.04.1 I find a /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont > directory, which seems to have 12 fonts listed, and where I suppose I > could dump the Win *.ttf. Would this be the right place? > > Looking in PCLINUXOS 2010, I find about 55 .ttf fonts in /usr/share/ > fonts/webcore/ including Times, "couri" and arial. > > I need more instruction. I've been playing around with Linux for some > time, but only recently decided to get serious about it. So, in that > respect, I'm really a newbie. So help, please. In what point do you need more instruction? :-? I tell you what I do for getting TrueType fonts (I can only speak for Debian, not sure how the other distributions are managing that). To avoid messing TrueType fonts with the current installed ones, I copy/ paste *.ttf files into "/usr/local/share/fonts". That way, TrueType fonts are widely available for all users and programs. > For instance, how does a program like OOo or Thunderbird, or the pdf > reader, etc., know which subdirectory to pick its fonts from? (That > would kind of indicate where additional fonts should be imported to.) In Debian, any program may look into the defined directories (specified in "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf" file: <!-- Font directory list --> <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir> <dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir> <dir>~/.fonts</dir> Additional info: http://wiki.debian.org/Fonts Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.09.29.10.03...@gmail.com
