Re: defoma and registering ttf fonts system wide

2013-05-05 Thread Thilo Six
Hello Excerpt from staticsafe: -- -- >>> I used to use defoma to register ttf fonts. Now that it's gone, >>> how to register ttf fonts system wide now? >> >> Drop the fonts in one of the paths defined in >> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. Currently this is: >> >> /usr/share/fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fon

Re: defoma and registering ttf fonts system wide

2013-05-04 Thread staticsafe
On 5/4/2013 18:10, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 04.05.2013 23:06, schrieb T o n g: >> Hi, >> >> I used to use defoma to register ttf fonts. Now that it's gone, >> how to register ttf fonts system wide now? > > Drop the fonts in one of the paths defined in > /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. Currently this is:

Re: defoma and registering ttf fonts system wide

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 04.05.2013 23:06, schrieb T o n g: > Hi, > > I used to use defoma to register ttf fonts. Now that it's gone, how to > register ttf fonts system wide now? Drop the fonts in one of the paths defined in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. Currently this is: /usr/share/fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts /usr

Re: defoma and its font path

2012-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:37:36 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:59:11 +0200, lee wrote: >> >>> Camaleón writes: >>> TrueType fonts can be simply copied/pasted into one of the available font path folders and that should be all. >>> >>> It isn't that simp

Re: defoma and its font path

2012-09-10 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:59:11 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> TrueType fonts can be simply copied/pasted into one of the available >>> font path folders and that should be all. >> >> It isn't that simple. > > It is for the majority of applications. It seems v

Re: defoma and its font path

2012-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:59:11 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> TrueType fonts can be simply copied/pasted into one of the available >> font path folders and that should be all. > > It isn't that simple. It is for the majority of applications. > With what you can get from dpkg-reconfi

Re: defoma and its font path

2012-09-10 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > TrueType fonts can be simply copied/pasted into one of the available font > path folders and that should be all. It isn't that simple. With what you can get from dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config, the fonts don't look too great and they look really awful in emacs-frames. Fo

Re: defoma and its font path

2012-09-09 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 19:44:17 +, T o n g wrote: > It's been generations since I last play with X and defoma. Is defoma > still the recommended way of configuring TrueType fonts? I noticed that > defoma's font path is not in my Xorg. Is there any modern way to "slip" > it in without touching the

Re: defoma and its font path

2012-09-08 Thread Brian
On Sat 08 Sep 2012 at 19:44:17 +, T o n g wrote: > It's been generations since I last play with X and defoma. You may need to get a move on if it is still your intention. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651494 Even now it may be too late. But snapshot.debian.org is alwa

Re: Defoma: How2 install type 1 fonts?

2007-08-08 Thread Mumia W..
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

Re: defoma/ghostscript/fontconfig/cups mess

2005-06-11 Thread =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito
On Jun 10 2005, Kirill wrote: > The system is the latest x386 sid, first installed back in 2001 from a woody > prerelease CD. All fonts are displayed just fine on screen in KDE. In KWord > letter spacing is bad for some fonts, specifically Times New Roman. If you intend to generate postscript and/

Re: Defoma

2004-09-15 Thread John Lowell
Clive Menzies wrote: > Rob Weir wrote a useful guide: > http://egads.ertius.org/~rob/font_guide.txt > > HTH > > Regards > > Clive > > > -- > Byte-Night 2004 ... helping the young homeless .. please visit: > https://www.bmycharity.com/clive Hello Clive! And many thanks for the url for Rob Weir's

Re: Defoma

2004-09-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/09/04 01:35), John Lowell wrote: > Anssi Porttikivi wrote: > > > > >Neither can anyone else. It's a mess. > > > Hi Anssi, > > First, my apologies to you and the list for the blank message that I > sent inadvertently just moments ago. Life's hard enough without things > like that, eh? :-)

Re: Defoma

2004-09-14 Thread John Lowell
Anssi Porttikivi wrote: Neither can anyone else. It's a mess. Hi Anssi, First, my apologies to you and the list for the blank message that I sent inadvertently just moments ago. Life's hard enough without things like that, eh? :-) So it's a mess? That's certainly not encouraging. Frankly, I'm a

Re: Defoma

2004-09-14 Thread Anssi Porttikivi
John Lowell wrote: > I've taken a lot of time to research the Debian approach to fonts > hoping > to find a way to get an overviewI've googled and schmoogled > looking > for some independent "How-To" to provide context for these man pages > but can find nothing helpful. Neither can anyone else

Re: defoma & symbol.ttf

2004-06-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:06:18AM -0300, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Em Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:50:18 +0200, Martin D. Weinberg escreveu: > > > Does anyone know how to install symbol.ttf using defoma? (Or better > > yet, perhaps it's already in some package?) > > msttcor

Re: defoma & symbol.ttf

2004-06-16 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:50:18 +0200, Martin D. Weinberg escreveu: > Does anyone know how to install symbol.ttf using defoma? (Or better > yet, perhaps it's already in some package?) msttcorefonts or something the like, from contrib. -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra +

Re: Defoma and TT Font installation scripts

2004-03-18 Thread Brad Sims
hrm I wrote a silly little script to add new fonts and refresh the fonts cache... === #!/bin/bash # Create a directory named /usr/local/share/fonts if it doesn't exist; # then edit /etc/fonts/local.conf to look # vaguely like this: # # /u

Re: Defoma Fontconfig Openoffice Truetype...

2004-01-14 Thread Chris Halls
On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 22:23, Rainer Kiehne wrote: > fc-list lists the font > > openoffice seems not to know about the > font at all :-( > Is there any step-by-step howto to get > a .ttf file into openoffice.org Are you using the .debs? Because they include Ximian's fontconfig integration, which

Re: Defoma Fontconfig Openoffice Truetype...

2004-01-13 Thread Rainer Kiehne
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > There is a fonts button somewhere. Not anymore. Openoffice has been configured to work with fontconfig (at least the debain packages) Thanks anyway. I have already figured it out - you have to deal with defoma, creating hintfiles, ... Rainer

Re: Defoma Fontconfig Openoffice Truetype...

2004-01-12 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em SÃb, 2004-01-10 Ãs 19:23, Rainer Kiehne escreveu: > openoffice seems not to know about the > font at all :-( You have to launch the OpenOffice.org setup app, preferrably as root: su - /usr/lib/openoffice/spadmin Or something the like. There is a fonts

Re: defoma not creating truetype directory?

2003-03-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:42:30AM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > I just upgraded my laptop to "testing". I then installed the latest > msttcorefonts to get Microsoft fonts. > > The problem I'm seeing is that defoma is not creating a TrueType font > directory (there is no /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-

Re: defoma

2002-03-15 Thread Stefan Schwandter
Kevin C. Smith wrote: > Thanks, Are there already font packages that install themselves using x-ttcidfont-conf? regards, Stefan -- Wanna listen to my music? <-- > http://www.shockfrosted.org

Re: defoma

2002-03-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:58:31PM -0700, Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote: > And I heard Kevin C. Smith exclaim: > > What do I need to do to get defoma working properly? > > Check out /usr/share/doc/x-ttcidfont-conf/README.Debian > > HTH > > --Daniel F. T. Thanks, -- Kevin C. Smith

Re: defoma

2002-03-14 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
And I heard Kevin C. Smith exclaim: > What do I need to do to get defoma working properly? Check out /usr/share/doc/x-ttcidfont-conf/README.Debian HTH --Daniel F. T.