On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 07:26:48AM -0400, Thomas Ronayne 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.
>
I'll re-install my port (yes, Unix--Berkeley Unix; it ought to
be straightforward to hack into Ubuntu). I've located type1inst.
Did not really notice the TTF stuff in xorg. wow.
thanks much,
gary
>
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