[Leaplist] Adding new fonts

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 27 August 2007 11:26, Jim Hartley wrote:
> Has anyone gone through the process of adding new fonts to a recent
> Linux (especially RedHat/Fedora). I am looking for how to do it in the
> recent Xorg-based versions.
>
> I have done this on older systems (X86Free based) and it has worked OK,
> but all the docs I can find are out of date and don't mention Xorg. I
> did the chkfontpath --add, and restarted xfs, but no luck. Since then I
> have rebooted the system, still no luck.
>
> I am trying to get some additional fonts like Times New Roman into
> OpenOffice (yeah, I "borrowed" the ttf files from the WinXP partition on
> the same machine). As a check I looked at The GIMP -- on my old system
> installing new fonts and having them show up in The GIMP worked great,
> but they don't show up there either on my new FC6 system.
>
> I would like to find the proper way to install new fonts to the entire
> system, but I would be willing to settle for a way to get them into
> OpenOffice. Any suggestions appreciated.
>
> Jim Hartley

On my Mandriva 2007 machine, they have a GUI config option to import fonts. 
Once you copy the fonts to your hard disk, it works very well on Truetype 
fonts. The day I imported Ariel, Ariel Black, Ariel Narrow, and Times New 
Roman, I was able to format my troubleshooting course on my Linux box, and 
leave the headless Win98 box turned off. The only thing I use the Win98 box 
for now is old Micrografx Windows Draw drawings (my new drawings are made in 
Inkscape), and my old WordPerfect 5.1 files (my new books are made in LyX).

So check for a GUI tool to import those fonts. If you have a modern distro, 
you probably have one.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/