On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 07:26:48 -0400
Thomas Ronayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Gary Kline wrote:
> >     Years ago I created a port of free fonts for FreeBSD.  I've
> >     updated the font list which is in Postscript form.  Is
> > there a way I can add these font to OOo-2.02?
> >
> >     I also bought a truckload of fonts in TTF format as well as 
> >     Postscript.  Is there a way of adding these fonts?
> >
> >     thanks in advance,
> >
> >     gary
> >
> >
> >     PS:  I'm willing to share my port of fonts with OO.org;
> > just drop a line.
> >   
> If you have them installed on your system (I'm assuming Unix or
> Linux?) and your window manager is aware of them, OO will find and
> use them -- you did execute mkfontdir and mkfontscale in the font
> directories? You may need type1inst for some PostScript fonts (Google
> is your friend to find it). Again, assuming Unix or Linux, you have
> your font directories listed in your xorg.conf file? Looks something
> like this: Section "Files"
>         RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
>         ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Adobe/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/myfonts/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> EndSection
> And there is a fonts.dir and fonts.scale file in every font directory 
> (created with mkfontdir and mkfontscale whenever you add font files)?
> 
> Ought to be good to go.
> 
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Also, OOo has its own Printer Administration facility which sorts out
the fonts bit. If it's not in a Desktop menu on your system, it's
called spadmin. You can use this to point OOo to your fonts directories.

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