On Aug 12 2007 20:59, Dave Barton wrote:
>In the process of restoring my original OpenOffice.org configurations I
>noticed that many of the previously available fonts were not accessible,
>even though I had reinstalled all of them on 10.2. When I searched for
>the location of truetype fonts on the system, I found a hodge-podge of
>various, sometimes duplicated, truetype fonts installed (not soft links)
>in the following directories:
>/usr/local/share/fonts
>/usr/share/fonts/truetype
>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype
>
>The OpenOffice.org configuration is easy to fix, but does anyone know
>why fonts are scattered around in this apparently disorganized fashion?
10.2 puts fonts in /usr/share/fonts.
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts is still supported for backwards-compatibility.
/usr/local/share/fonts obviously sounds like the logical counterpart to
/usr/share/fonts, just like /usr/local/bin is to /usr/bin. Nothing
special.
Jan
--
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
