About installing TrueType Fonts

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On 11/13/07, Makoto Mizukami <mmk9060 at aol.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>

Normal user can install TTF fonts to $HOME/.fonts/ and run fc-cache :-)

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