About installing TrueType Fonts

[Stijn Hoop]

Hi,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:45:28 +0900
Makoto Mizukami <mmk9060 at aol.com> wrote:
> I wanted to install true type fonts for Japanese characters from TTF
> file, but I couldn't. When I commanded "fc-cache -fv", the system
> said that normal users can't edit /var/cache/fontconfig/ because of
> the permission.  So I changed permission of that dir to 0777 and then
> I was able to install new fonts.
> 
> I think that it is bug that can't install new fonts from TTF file by
> copying files to the system font directory, but I am not sure that
> the problem depends on only the permission of /var/cache/fontconfig.
> Please give me your informations about installing TTF on F8.

If you want to install it as a system font, you should copy the
font into a system directory as root and then run 'fc-cache -fv' as
root. You should not change the mode of the /var/cache/fontconfig
directory.

If you want to install the font for your own use, you should put it in
the .fonts subdirectory of your homedirectory, and then run 'fc-cache
-fv' as your own user. You should still not change the mode of
the /var/cache/fontconfig directory. Although the fc-cache utility might
complain a bit, it's not an error, and your font should still work.

Regards,

--Stijn