Fonts on FC6

[Marcelo Magno T. Sales]

Em Domingo 19 Novembro 2006 14:25, Kevin Kempter escreveu:
> On Saturday 18 November 2006 4:20 pm, Frank Cox wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:11:35 -0700
> >
> > Kevin Kempter <kevin at kevinkempterllc.com> wrote:
> > > Hi List;
> > >
> > > I'm converting from SuSE due to the recent brain-dead decision to
> > > engage with M$.  One issue is that I had hundreds and hundreds of fonts
> > > in SuSE 10.0. How can I get loads of fonts in FC6 ?
> >
> > There are numerous methods, but the simplest one would be for you to copy
> > the "hundreds and hundreds of fonts" from your Suse distribution and put
> > them into a directory called ~/.fonts (dot fonts in your home directory).
>
> Thanks for the tip. I've found a dir on the old SuSE drive
> '/usr/share/fonts'
>
> I copied its contents with a cp -R so I got all the dir's into my local FC6
> drive into /usr/share/fonts.
>
> However when I start openoffice I dont see the new fonts.  Any thoughts?
> Did I miss a step?

Close openoffice and execute fc-cache as root before opening it again. Also, 
check if all users have read permissions in all fonts in /usr/share/fonts.

[]'s
Marcelo