Re: Font install problems ...

[Dinesh Nadarajah <n_dinesh yahoo com>]

Thanks for the info. I have done that. I could not find font.conf in
Mandrake and have not tried it with Debian yet. In RH 8.0, when I did
that, not all fonts got registered - esp. Unicode fonts.

Thanks again.

-Dinesh


--- "Jacky, Lau" <zenithlau sniic com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I am trying to install TTF fonts on a linux distribution. I think I
> did
> > that sucessfully since 'xlsfonts' lists all the fonts I installed.
> But
> > when I tried to access these fonts in Gnome for usage in say gedit
> or
> > as for the desktop, the fonts are not displayed for selection (by
> > gnome). I have done this with Mandrake 9.0, RedHat 8.0, and Debian
> 3.0
> > Unstable (Debian and Mandrake don't display any of the new fonts,
> and
> > RedHat displays only half of them).
> I still haven't got the iso image these all three distro /: (
> But I think you can try to look on the new font configuration system.
> 'fontconfig'
> If there is a file named 'fonts.conf' under /etc/fonts or something
> similar,
> Add a line like
>    <dir>/your/additional/font/path</dir>
> near the other <dir>s element.
> 
> Next, restart any apps to see that.
> 
> Note: fontconfig is a library which is responsible for managing your
> fonts. As long 
> as font directory is specified inside "fonts.conf" (the conf. of
> fontconfig), ttf under 
> the font directory will be scaned and cached (the meta information of
> fonts).
> 
> > 
> > Anyone have any insight to this?
> I think I know something on this field, but not expert /P
> 
> > 
> > Does the locale affect the availability of fonts on a system?
> > 
> Should not, IMO
> 
> Zenith
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