chkfontpath ?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Nov 10 09:46:32 UTC 2008


Simon Slater wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 12:44 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> Where's the best place to start looking / learning about fonts in
>>> Fedora?  I need to get more for use in OOo, GIMP, Inkscape and
>> Scribus.
>>
>> IIRC, all these apps just use fontconfig. So the method is documented
>> in 
>> the release notes. Quoting
>>
> Thanks Rahul.  Is there a centralized or preferred place to find (open
> source) fonts which I can use now on F8 and then transfer to F10?  I'm
> new to fonts and have been happy with default fonts for my work, but
> others here want "better" or fancier fonts.  This will be another
> learning curve I think.

There are a number of them already packaged (yum search fonts). It is a 
long list and we are working through it but otherwise it is pretty 
scattered.

http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/12/13/open-source-fonts/
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Font_wishlist

Rahul




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