On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 09:04 +1000, Peter Miller wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to install a TrueType font on Linux
I once (2+ years ago) had to jump through some hoops to teach my system
to make MS Corefonts available. The trick was having a local.conf
in /etc/fonts with something like this (dug out of an old backup):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<dir>/opt/Ximian-OpenOffice/share/fonts/truetype</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/fonts/corefonts</dir>
</fontconfig>
Where those two directories were things I added. Since then, my distro's
packaging + policy along with the general renaissance of co-operation
between the GNOME, KDE + freedeskop + X crowds has led to all of this
"just working".
I have no idea whether firefox uses fontconfig, but much else in a
modern Desktop Environment does, and at the time it made a big
difference.
So maybe try adding the information to /etc/fonts/local.conf?
AfC
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