On Thursday 09 December 2004 11:13, BandiPat wrote:
> > Have you added fonts successfully? If so, where did you put them? And > > what did you do next? > > > > Thanks for any help. > > ================== > > John, > Again, I make no warranties this will work for you with the Slackware, > but this is the usual procedure I go through to install extra fonts. > Also, I agree with Peter, in that using the KDE control center to > install fonts works nicely. I prefer to do them manually myself. > > In installing extra fonts, I always make a new directory within: > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ > > That is the main font location for the system, so it just seems best to > put it there, if I want system wide usage. Once installed, you need to > build a couple of files and get them ready for use by ghostscript. As > root, from a shell, I run: /usr/bin/fonts-config --force > That should build a fonts.cache-1 & fonts.scale file within the > directory. I am not sure if that is a common command or SuSE specific > though. > > If everything is good so far, I then add the path to my new fonts in > /etc/X11/XF86Config or xorg.conf, in the font path area. I then restart > the X server, not reboot, just the X server. I know there are suppose > to be ways to add the fonts while in KDE, but restarting the X server > works best for me and it only takes a few seconds. Here's the procedure: > ctrl-alt-F1 (takes you to one of many terminal screens) > login as root user > type: init 3 (stops X server) > press enter key > type: init 5 (restarts X and allows login to your preferred GUI) > > Hopefully that will help a bit. At least, maybe it will give you some > things to look at though. > > regards, > Patrick In short I have found success and happiness. Basically I followed the above guides with modifications. I have a directory /usr/newfonts which holds the fonts from the Knoppix 3.6 disk. I added some fonts from the TeX distro. I did fc-cache from within that directory. I fired up Scribus and did the settings->fonts-> additional paths bit, adding the /usr/newfonts directory. The fonts became available in Scribus. The new font path is persistent. I didn't have to add anything to xorg.conf and I didn't have to restart X-windows. My previous failure with the /usr/share/fonts directory can be attributable to one of two possible things: 1. A subdirectory structure in /usr/share/fonts copied from TeX. or 2. An indigestible font somewhere. My new directory has no subdirectories, and I am adding fonts a handful at a time and running fc-cache, then testing in Scribus. The fonts I am adding are Type 1. Scribus seems not to care if there is an afm file or not for a given font. Ultimately I will move the directory with the new fonts to something more standard. But for now it works. My thanks to all who replied. I just knew there was a trick to it :<) -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf
