Buster Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 Hi, Anybody that happens to have the procedure for installing Truetype font on Mandrake 10.0? [moved from Tips & Tricks by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 Copy your ttf font files to: /home/$user/.fonts For kde: open kde control center --> system ---> fonts The new fonts should appear. Don't know for gnome, but restarting gnome should do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 You can do this graphically in nautilus. Browse to fonts:/// and drag the fonts there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 Ha, Qchem - :-) Seems this works also in kde konqueror as filemanager: fonts:/ Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mikejd Posted September 15, 2004 Report Share Posted September 15, 2004 Copy your ttf font files to: /home/$user/.fonts For kde: open kde control center --> system ---> fonts The new fonts should appear. Don't know for gnome, but restarting gnome should do it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have done this and all the new fonts are available to most packages (KDE, OpenOffice< etc) except GIMP. It worked fine with Mdk9.2 but I am now using Mdk10.0 on another machine and GIMP can't seem to see the files. Any suggestions anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted September 15, 2004 Report Share Posted September 15, 2004 (edited) Which version of GIMP? Works with gimp2 - but that is not installed as default in 10.0 :unsure:, still the old gimp 1.x ... Setup your urpmi sources, add contrib, and then as root: # urpmi gimp2 p.s. welcome, Mike, on Mandrakeusers.org :-) Edited September 15, 2004 by anna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted September 16, 2004 Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 if you drag it to /home/name/.fonts/ you can try running "fc-cache -v" as a user afterwards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonas Posted October 2, 2004 Report Share Posted October 2, 2004 Anyone knows where I can get, download more fonts for my mdk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted October 2, 2004 Report Share Posted October 2, 2004 Have you setup your urpmi repositories? I believe PLF has a good selection or look here http://rpm.pbone.net/ Just search for fonts. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 2, 2004 Report Share Posted October 2, 2004 drakfont Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 2, 2004 Report Share Posted October 2, 2004 there was/is??? a thread here on the forum with a link to a script that downloads 360MB/6700 fonts, but I can't find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonas Posted October 2, 2004 Report Share Posted October 2, 2004 Thanks a lot bvc and devries! Yes, I've added sources to urpmi. And will search for fonts. Have a lot to learn :D _________ jonas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted December 24, 2004 Report Share Posted December 24, 2004 In MDK 10.0 I imported founts from my W98 partitions. It was tedious work but it got done. Now I have moved to 10.1 and it seems to have become impossible, at least if I go along the "add fonts" route. My fount files are zipped: TTF, PFB and PFM separately. Can I copy the ZIPs to MDK and unzip them? If yes, what should be their location and what is the procedure for telling MDK that they exist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted December 24, 2004 Report Share Posted December 24, 2004 This link gives instructions and a link to a RPM with MS fonts link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Following instructions posted somewhere on the Web by a person whose e-mail address begins with "ll...", I imported TTF, PFB and PFM faces from one of my Win 98 partitions. The procedure involved making sub-dirs under /usr/share/fonts, then running "ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale" and "mkfontdir" on each, then pointing to these sub-dirs in /etc/X11/fs/config, and finally doing "xset fp rehash" and "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart". Most faces now show up in most applications. However, Courier New and Cumberland look exactly the same when printed out. Monotype.com is OK. How do I undo what I have done and follow the advice of Anna and Iphitus? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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