On Thursday 09 December 2004 00:25, BandiPat wrote: > John Culleton wrote: > > I took a bunch of fonts and dumped them into > > /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 on my Slackware system. Then I ran > > fc-cache . The fonts still don't show up in Scribus. What more do I need > > to do? > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > John, > Don't know if this works the same on your Slackware, but did you perhaps > restart the X server? Anytime I make changes of this nature, I > ctrl-alt-F1, login as root, init 3 and lastly init 5. That should > reload the X server and all fonts, if there are no problems.
Earlier I rebooted, which of course restarts the X server. Today I just changed the ownership of /usr/share/fonts to my user id, ran fc-cache again as a user, not as root, rebooted and still the same result. As part of the reboot process fc-cache is run yet again. The fonts in question have two origins, Knoppix 3.6 and the latest TeX-Live distribution. I put them in /usr/share/cache because I didn't want to muck up the X11 font libraries. The theory behind the fc-cache process is that all X11 apps can share the same fonts. On my system there are four sources listed in the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf directory: <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir> <dir>~/.fonts</dir> I chose /usr/share/fonts as the least destructive location. Have you added fonts successfully? If so, where did you put them? And what did you do next? Thanks for any help. -- John Culleton
