importing Fonts : Windows to Fedora

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Hi there,

SourceForge project mstcorefonts may be usefull to you. Beware that a font is
copyrighted work, so it may be forbidden to copy some of them to Linux (or any
other machine / OS)

[]s, Fernando Lozano


> > Hello all, 
> > 
> > i work on a dual boot WinXP/Fedora desktop.
> > i know there is a possibility in importing fonts from Windows to Fedora or 
> > other Linux, but i cannot find it using my doc and browsers ... 
> > 
> > 1. could somebody indicate me the operations to do ? 
> 
> That's what I've done to get my TrueType Windows Fonts available to X11
> :
> 
> Just copied the fonts to the folder /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
> with this copy, I get the fonts for OpenOffice and Gimp (i.e.) but they
> are not present on Mozilla and cannot see them on Nautilus going to the
> fonts:/// folder.
> 
> So, to get them on Mozilla or on the fonts:/// folder, I've created the
> folder /usr/share/fonts/windows-fonts and copied again the fonts to this
> folder. Then edited the file /usr/share/fonts/fonts.cache-1 to include
> the following line:
> 
> "windows-fonts" 0 ".dir"
> 
> I don't know if it is the best way to install the windows fonts, but
> this worked for me and I had no time to investagate more abuit it.
> 
> Hope this helps ... I'm newbie at linux and cannot help more by now.
> 
> Regards,
> Jordi.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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