On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Ninad Pundalik <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Ram, > > > Have been doing the following to add ttf fonts to my Ubuntu system > > > > 1. Copy fonts to /usr/share/fonts (in sudo mode) > > 2. run sudo fc-cache -fsv > > Did you try copying the fonts to ~/.fonts? That is the users personal > Fonts directory. You'll have to run fc-cache after copying the fonts, > and restart any programs you are using, for them to see the fonts, as > you've been doing. > > Btw, there's a simpler way to access these locations, if you have > Konqueror installed (the KDE File Manager). Just enter 'fonts:///' in > the location bar, and you'll get the right folders. :) > -- > Ninad S. Pundalik > http://ninadpundalik.co.cc/blog > GPG Key Fingerprint: 2DF7 B856 C75E C9F9 0504 C0EF D456 1946 7C45 2C69 > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > If you do a lot of font related work, you might want to check out a dedicated TTF font manager like fonty python http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython It is also available in the standard ubuntu repository.
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