Hi, I am hoping that someone can help this guy out; I also have a similar problem when trying to use "Get Windows fonts"; when I click on get windows fonts, and select the fonts, it just hangs, and drakfont NEVER responds (I even tried leaving it on over night once) so I have to kill it. Thanks, David Charles On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, David Guntner wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using drakfont to examine the fonts that I have available to me. If I > click on "Get Windows fonts", it complains that there's no Windows > partition on my machine - which, strictly speaking, is true. It tells me > to use 'Add fonts" instead. Now, I *do* have a Windows 98 machine running > on my little home network here, and its C: drive is mounted on the Linux > machine as /mnt/c. I can cd to /mnt/c/windows/fonts just fine and look at > the files, etc. However, if I use "Add fonts" and work my way over to that > directory, any font file that I try to click on doesn't get selected, and > if I manually type the font file name into the "Selection:" box and click > ok, I get an error message. It doesn't bother to tell me what the problem > is, it just say "Error while opening '/mnt/c/WINDOWS/FONTS/arial.tif' (as > an example). > > So, two questions here: One, is there any way that I can fool drakfont > into using /mnt/c/windows/fonts as a Windows Font directory, so that "Get > Windows fonts" will work? And two, is there any way to clear up whatever > the error is when I try to select a font manually? > > --Dave > > -- > David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! > http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server > for PGP Public key > >
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