Hi! ALL, I had the same problem. All I did was to remove xfs and directly hardcoded the fontpath into /etc/XF86Config.4 and everything works just fine ! Further, Iam using these and the other (Lucida fonts from JDK !) fonts in LaTeX and DocBook ! -cheers, Krish ----- Original Message ----- From: "etharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 7:07 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Windows fonts with Mandrake 8.0? > shoot me for sounding winders-ish but have you tried either rebooting or > restarting the font server? (service xfs restart? I think I might shut down x > when I tried it) > > On Monday 17 September 2001 17:19, you wrote: > > David Joham grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > I've had problems with DrakFont never finishing an import of fonts, > > > although that doesn't seem to be what you're seeing. > > > > > > Try going into a KDE editor and seeing if the font shows up. DrakFont > > > may be caching its font list. If the font does show up, well then your > > > on your way. If not, I would scan the net for HOWTOs on installing fonts > > > the "real" way rather than through DrakFont. > > > > Thanks again for the reply. I tried bringing up Netscape under KDE, and it > > didn't show the font as being available to it. Also, running kedit (a text > > editor, which I think is a KDE thing - at least it was on the Editors > > menu), the font doesn't show up there, either. > > > > If anyone can point me to a HOWTO on this, it would save me a lot of time. > > > > :-) In the meantime, I'll start looking. Thanks! > > > > --Dave > > ---------------------------------------- > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Description: > ---------------------------------------- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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