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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