Re: Adding new fonts

Hey Jim,

Am Montag, den 27.08.2007, 11:26 -0400 schrieb Jim Hartley:
Has anyone gone through the process of adding new fonts to a recent
Linux (especially RedHat/Fedora). I am looking for how to do it in the
recent Xorg-based versions.

I have done this on older systems (X86Free based) and it has worked OK,
but all the docs I can find are out of date and don't mention Xorg. I
did the chkfontpath --add, and restarted xfs, but no luck. Since then I
have rebooted the system, still no luck.


The easiest way is to put the new fonts into ~/.fonts.

I am trying to get some additional fonts like Times New Roman into
OpenOffice (yeah, I "borrowed" the ttf files from the WinXP partition on
the same machine). As a check I looked at The GIMP -- on my old system
installing new fonts and having them show up in The GIMP worked great,
but they don't show up there either on my new FC6 system.

I would like to find the proper way to install new fonts to the entire
system, but I would be willing to settle for a way to get them into
OpenOffice. Any suggestions appreciated.


- fabiand

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