Installing fonts in Lenny (use defoma?)

2008-10-17 Thread Chris Burkhardt
85653) which is almost 4 years old. Does anybody know of any good guides to installing fonts in Debian? - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing Fonts

2006-12-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Do following: > cd ~ > mkdir ~/.fonts copy all TTF fonts into this directory > apt-get install xfonts-utils > cd ~/.fonts > mkfontscale ./ > mkfontdir ./ > xset +fp ${HOME}/.fonts > xset fp rehash and you are done. Note: The last two lines should be included

Re: Installing Fonts

2006-12-21 Thread Mumia W..
On 12/21/2006 03:13 AM, Daniel Haude wrote: First off - I can't believe I'm the only person having this trouble, but I couldn't find any useable information about this on the Net. Well, I'm trying to install a collection of TTF fonts on my Debian system. The strange thing is that I've managed it

Re: Installing Fonts

2006-12-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:13:07 +0100 Daniel Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First off - I can't believe I'm the only person having this trouble, > but I couldn't find any useable information about this on the Net. > > Well, I'm trying to install a collection of TTF fonts on my Debian > system. T

Installing Fonts

2006-12-21 Thread Daniel Haude
First off - I can't believe I'm the only person having this trouble, but I couldn't find any useable information about this on the Net. Well, I'm trying to install a collection of TTF fonts on my Debian system. The strange thing is that I've managed it once but can't reproduce the way I did it. I

Re: Installing fonts

2006-03-06 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _L.V.Gandhi_, on 03/06/2006 10:42 AM,typed: On 3/5/06, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: You put the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win98 for all users if you have root access or put it in ~/.fonts and then do dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. Doesn't "dpkg-recon

Re: Installing fonts

2006-03-06 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 3/5/06, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > > > You put the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win98 for all users if > > you have root access or put it in ~/.fonts and then do > > dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. > > Doesn't "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" also need root access

Re: Installing fonts

2006-03-05 Thread cga
H.S. wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: You put the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win98 for all users if you have root access or put it in ~/.fonts and then do dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. Doesn't "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" also need root access to run? ->HS I did it as root w/o th

Re: Installing fonts

2006-03-05 Thread H.S.
L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > You put the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win98 for all users if > you have root access or put it in ~/.fonts and then do > dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. Doesn't "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" also need root access to run? ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Installing fonts

2006-03-05 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 3/4/06, cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >do dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. It will config allfonts. whenever you > >add fonts do this. > Followed your recommendation but this seems to be mostly about > font-rendering choices. I saw that it did regenerate fontconfig's font > cache but where it w

Re: Installing fonts

2006-03-04 Thread cga
L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 3/4/06, cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I copied over the win98 fonts to /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/win98 .. did the usual $ mkfontscale; mkfontdir.. added the directory in /etc/X11/XF86config-4.. added it likewise to /etc/fonts/local.conf.. and did and $ fc-list to

Re: Installing fonts

2006-03-04 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 3/4/06, cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I copied over the win98 fonts to /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/win98 > .. did the usual $ mkfontscale; mkfontdir.. added the directory in > /etc/X11/XF86config-4.. added it likewise to /etc/fonts/local.conf.. and > did and $ fc-list to verify all this

Installing fonts

2006-03-04 Thread cga
I copied over the win98 fonts to /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/win98 .. did the usual $ mkfontscale; mkfontdir.. added the directory in /etc/X11/XF86config-4.. added it likewise to /etc/fonts/local.conf.. and did and $ fc-list to verify all this magic had worked.. and now I'm getting somewha

Easy way of installing fonts & font hinting

2006-02-03 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
How i can install new TrueType font? if i put ttf file in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ only fontconfig sees them, but how about defoma. I have to write hint file manually. Instead there have to be some kind of script, that gets all necessary information from ttf file metadata? The second problem:

Re: installing fonts

2003-12-06 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Sat, 06 Dec 2003 18:21:33 +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel escreveu: > Which utilities do I need? Check dfontmgr or something the like. -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Belo Horizonte, Londrina, SÃo Paulo +55 (11) 5686 9607 http://br.geocities.com./

installing fonts

2003-12-06 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
What is the Right Way to install fonts 'by hand' so that defoma and fontconfig are happy? Which utilities do I need? I want to install the Unicode fonts 'bitstream cyberbit' and 'arialuni' (obviously non-Debian). Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: installing fonts manually for tex

2003-10-19 Thread Aaron
uries begin to set in, I decided to simplify the matter for myself. I wrote a Perl script to install CTAN font packages. I will share it with everyone, with the caveat that it is built for installing fonts on my system, so your mileage may vary. ## BIG LONG PERL SCRIPT FOLLOWS ## #!/usr/bin/perl

installing fonts manually for tex

2003-10-11 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello all, I went through a lot of trouble trying to get the computer modern fonts installed correctly for dvips, etc, when I finally came across the tetex-extra package, which solved all my problems. My question is, using the downloadable cmps-unix.tar.gz file from ctan, how would I have installe

Re: Installing fonts

2002-01-16 Thread Brian Nelson
"Aldous B Bernardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I install truetype fonts which came from my windows font > collection into Debian ( particularly in X)? I am using Potato. Debian specific: http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/ Non-Debian specific: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/ind

Installing fonts

2002-01-16 Thread Aldous B Bernardo
How do I install truetype fonts which came from my windows font collection into Debian ( particularly in X)? I am using Potato. Aldous