[Leaplist] Adding new fonts

[Phil Barnett]

On Monday 27 August 2007, 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 but all the docs I can find are out of date and don't mention Xorg.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

Yeah, I just added a ton of fonts to the distro we put at the school.

Here is the email message that I outlined the process in...

http://lists.leap-cf.org/pipermail/leaplist/2007-June/001871.html

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Phil Barnett
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