kompact Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 I did a search but didn't see any posts that address this dirrectly. I have a font package of 2000 True Type Fonts and want to install them. Where do I put them? On a few websites I visit it looks like they use some MS True Type Fonts and FF replaces then with Sans I believe it is - looks horrible! I am assuming that if I put hese fonts in the system font dir. then FF will pick up on them when I visit these sites? Thx :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted April 29, 2005 Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 (edited) you may try to open the kde control center or at console, type kcontrol then go to system then font installer, i've tried installing fonts before that came from windows but i forgot the outcome.... :) Edited April 29, 2005 by aioshin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted April 29, 2005 Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 I kept the fonts from when I had Windows and use MCC -> System -> Fonts and installed them. Works like a charm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kompact Posted April 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 I kept the fonts from when I had Windows and use MCC -> System -> Fonts and installed them. Works like a charm. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Just did that and it was very easy - thx! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 29, 2005 Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 (edited) by the way, 'sans' isn't a font that exists, it's a standard font name that by convention should exist on any system and be linked to whatever real sans-serif font the system feels is appropriate. Same goes for 'serif' and 'monotype'. On MDV, the default fonts are the DejaVu family (sans, serif, mono). DejaVu is an extension of Bitstream Vera, which is a high-quality font family released as open source a couple of years ago. DejaVu adds several non-Roman language character sets that Bitstream is missing. Personally I really like Vera / DejaVu, but hey, different strokes :). I force my system to override just about _any_ font to dejavu sans. If you want to get your hands dirty, you can play around with font aliases and such in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf . Edited April 29, 2005 by adamw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kompact Posted April 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2005 (edited) Ok thx, I will muck around with that. For those who also use FF, if you are willing can you take a quick look here Kr | and tell me how the fonts look? Under FF in my XP all is slick and smooh but under FF in Linux it is horrible! As an FYI that is the forums for my CS clan - in case you wondered, which you prob didn't, but hey = } Edited April 30, 2005 by kompact Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted April 30, 2005 Report Share Posted April 30, 2005 Looks ok to me. What fonts you don't like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kompact Posted April 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2005 (edited) Some of the fonts look fuzzy to me, such as the topic descriptios, under the headers. Your screenshot looks fine to me, maybe I am just not used to the new fonts yet. Aside from that I really like how Ksnapshot opens when I hit Prt Scr = } Thx for thaking the time to look at it for me. Edited April 30, 2005 by kompact Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted May 2, 2005 Report Share Posted May 2, 2005 MDV (and other Linux distros) use anti-aliased fonts by default; Windows doesn't. To some people, AA does look 'fuzzy'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kompact Posted May 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2005 Bahaha, I figured it out. I went into the fonts section of FF and they were set to be at 10 point - they were so small they looked fuzzy. I bumped it up to 14 and they look slick. Yes, yes I am a Linux nub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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