On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 15:46, Sam Couter wrote: > But these fonts do not appear in the list of fonts available for selection > in gnome-font-properties (or gnome-terminal's font selection dialog > either). > > Abiword can't find these fonts either.
That's because modern applications don't use X to locate and use the fonts anymore. Most use fontconfig. > If I install the fonts on the local machine, then GNOME and Abiword can > find them. > > I don't want them installed on the local machine. I want them served by > a central font server. That's what font servers are for. Use NFS etc. to share them out, then tell fontconfig where they are by editing /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. Hope this helps, Roger
