Re: WIndows version compared with Linux



On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 08:17:40 +0100, Chris Green <chris areti co uk> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:42:06PM +0200, Alexander wrote:
Chris Green schrieb:

If I could get better fonts the Linux version works better for me, how
can I add fonts to the Linux version?  In particular can I get
something like Letter Gothic in Linux?


On SuSE Linux I just import them automatically into X-Server (via
Control Center or YaST). Maybe read some documentation of your
distribution?! If you're running a windows license you're allowed to use
even TTF's on Linux, via symbolic links (and no copying) you even don't
break any licensing rules. Otherwise look "http://www.schriftart.net/";
(german) for free fonts or treat google the right way. (Some
distributions include a lot of free fonts.)

I didn't think dia used the X fonts but maybe it does.

I'm not sure how to install new fonts on Slackware, that's my basic
problem.  "man -k font" doesn't produce anything useful that I can
see.

The most likely place to drop .ttf files is
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype.  I think that's defined by LSB and
X together.  That's what I use on RedHat & SuSE.

-Lars



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