Guest bradenm Posted March 26, 2003 Report Share Posted March 26, 2003 Finally! If you're using Mandrake 9.1, and have downloaded some nifty fonts (e.g. ttf files), to install them, simply copy them to either /usr/share/fonts/ or ~/.fonts/ They will instantly be available in most applications. Get some fonts here: http://www.dustismo.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted March 26, 2003 Report Share Posted March 26, 2003 Also some more free font sets here: http://www.identifont.com/free-fonts.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chad Posted April 15, 2003 Report Share Posted April 15, 2003 Also, you can use Drakfont in the Mandrake Control Center. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted April 15, 2003 Report Share Posted April 15, 2003 Just a quick question on this. Just how many fonts can Mandrake handle at one time? I have a disk with over 1000 fonts on it and was wondering if I'd kill the machine installing them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted April 16, 2003 Report Share Posted April 16, 2003 Just try it, and if you manage to post after installing, it can work If we don’t hear from you anymore, it’s a nice warning for all. ;) Seriously, I think it should be no problem, I have all msoffice and wpoffice fonts, that’s a couple of hundred... Maybe you can just add a part of those fonts and see if it’s still ok? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted April 17, 2003 Report Share Posted April 17, 2003 Bitstream Vera fonts finally released, grab it here: http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Creopan Posted June 27, 2003 Report Share Posted June 27, 2003 Finally! If you're using Mandrake 9.1, and have downloaded some nifty fonts (e.g. ttf files), to install them, simply copy them to either /usr/share/fonts/ or ~/.fonts/ They will instantly be available in most applications. Get some fonts here: http://www.dustismo.com Using 'Konqueror' I extracted a .ttf file from a .zip file to the /tmp folder. From there I tried to Drag&Drop this file into '/usr/share/fonts' but I get the following error: Access Denied Could not write to /usr/share/fonts/PenguinAttack.ttf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuoJing Posted July 1, 2003 Report Share Posted July 1, 2003 If you happen to be too lazy to touch the keyboard, this is an easy way to install fonts :) Go to Control Center, open System, and use the Font Installer. It works perfectly and much better than DrakFont <- I can't get that one to work at all (the fonts don't get Xft'ed ). It will work straight away, you don't need to restart anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static Posted July 2, 2003 Report Share Posted July 2, 2003 Finally! If you're using Mandrake 9.1, and have downloaded some nifty fonts (e.g. ttf files), to install them, simply copy them to either /usr/share/fonts/ or ~/.fonts/ They will instantly be available in most applications. Get some fonts here: http://www.dustismo.com Using 'Konqueror' I extracted a .ttf file from a .zip file to the /tmp folder. From there I tried to Drag&Drop this file into '/usr/share/fonts' but I get the following error: Access Denied Could not write to /usr/share/fonts/PenguinAttack.ttf That's because you need root access to write to /usr su [enter root passwd] cp /tmp/fontname.ttf /usr/share/fonts exit Voila! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 2, 2003 Report Share Posted July 2, 2003 If you happen to be too lazy to touch the keyboard, this is an easy way to install fonts :) Go to Control Center, open System, and use the Font Installer. It works perfectly and much better than DrakFont <- I can't get that one to work at all (the fonts don't get Xft'ed ). It will work straight away, you don't need to restart anything. He's referring to the KDE Control Center, in case anyone was wondering :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uiler Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 If you happen to be too lazy to touch the keyboard, this is an easy way to install fonts :) Go to Control Center, open System, and use the Font Installer. It works perfectly and much better than DrakFont <- I can't get that one to work at all (the fonts don't get Xft'ed ). It will work straight away, you don't need to restart anything. I'd just like to chime in that I have the same problem too (I want my Arial and Times New Roman fonts damn you!!!!!). Strangely the fonts I install from my Windows partition using DrakFont work in OpenOffice but nothing else (Mozilla, KDE etc.). But I use Control Centre and everything is fine. Weird. Though I wonder how Control Centre installs the fonts considering you have to be root to write to /usr/share/fonts... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinjh99 Posted January 31, 2004 Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 (edited) Finally! If you're using Mandrake 9.1, and have downloaded some nifty fonts (e.g. ttf files), to install them, simply copy them to either /usr/share/fonts/ or ~/.fonts/ They will instantly be available in most applications. Get some fonts here: http://www.dustismo.com Done that - All fonts that show up are squares with no writing... ;) What is the problem and how can I fix it? (Using 9.2 Download Edition) Edited January 31, 2004 by martinjh99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 Either restart X or if they still don't work remove the ones you added and use DrakFont in MCC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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