[FC3 / new fonts]How to install new fonts

[Scott Ryan]

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 14:33, Daniel Moyne shaped the electrons to say:
> Lately I have seen a message regarding questions about installation of new
> fonts ; here is a simple way to do it that works with all distributions
> including Fedora ; with this method all users will get access to new
> installed fonts :
>
> i) edit in root mode xml file "/etc/fonts/local.font" and add the following
> line :
>  <dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir>
> notes : for obscure reasons lines :
> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
> <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
> already included in xml file "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf" are also included in
> this "local.font" file ; if I delete them they are copied back after next
> boot ! ; this is obviously a Linux unconsistency
>
> ii) create the following "fonts" directory under "/usr/local/share" and
> drop in it all the folders of your personal fonts that you want to use ;
> for example :
> "my_TTF" folder where you drop all TTF fonts you like,
> "my_Type1" folder where you drop all Type1 fonts you like.
>

Or you can open konqueror, open the fonts directory and drop them straight in 
there.


> iii) reboot.

???? Why must you do this? 

>
> Regards
> --
> Daniel Moyne
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Scott Ryan
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