Font paths

[François Patte]

Anne Wilson a écrit :
> On Thursday 30 November 2006 13:11, François Patte wrote:
> 
>>Anne Wilson a écrit :
>>
>>>Following the instructions in
>>>http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Font-FAQ I am trying to add
>>>fonts to be globally available.  I have created a folder and put my new
>>>fonts there. It then says I should create a text file
>>>called /usr/share/X11/fonts/local.conf, with the new folder added in the
>>>format
>>>
>>><dir> /usr/share/X11/fonts/NewFonts </dir>
>>>
>>>However, when I run 'fc-cache /usr/share/X11/fonts/NewFonts' I get the
>>>error
>>>
>>>Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 2: junk after document element
>>
>>I don't understand why they describe such a complicated method! I just
>>add directories in:
>>/usr/share/fonts/default/
>>
>>then went into these directories and perform successively:
>>
>>ttmkfdir (if fonts are true type)
>>mkfontdir
>>fc-cache
>>
>>then run chkfontpath --add $PWD
>>
>>And that's all.
>>
> 
> I tried this method, Francois, and the new fonts were available to kword.  
> However, they are not available to openoffice.  I don't know why it should be 
> so, but perhaps that's why they advocate their particular method.

May be your problem is now solved, but I was out for sometimes.

I remenber that this method worked for openoffice only if I added my 
font directories in /usr/share/fonts/default/

Before that, I tried to build my own "local" directories, something like:

/opt/share/X11/fonts/...

and the fonts were not available to OO.

F.

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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université René Descartes
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte