Fonts in Linux

[Michael B Allen]

James T. Carver said:
> On Sunday 15 May 2005 03:19 pm, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
>> James T. Carver said:
>> > adding them using XFS and using xfontsel
>> > does not add them to the free type cache.  Firefox uses the free type
>> > fonts
>> > if it can find them.  I have packaged several fonts in an RPM to
>> install
>> > them
>> > on my FC3 box here and when I installed them they worked perfectly.
>>
>> Uhg. This stuff is supposed to get easier not harder.
>>
>> How do you create a font rpm and what is it about it that triggers the
>> freetype font cache thing? If I just modify a fonts-* xorg src.rpm will
>> that do it?
>
> Mike,
>
> go to linux.org and look at the fonts howto page, thats where I finally
> figured out how to add the fonts I had collected so I could use them in
> Linux. the how to tells you how to make the RPM file... gives you
> everything
> you need to know.
>
> http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Font-HOWTO

Nice link. The part I missed was running /usr/bin/fc-cache. I bet that
does what freetype needs.

Thanks,
Mike