Re: Installing TrueType Fonts

From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jul 26 2003 - 09:38:17 EDT

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    Jost,

    I recommend getting AbiWord 1.99.2 or the
    soon-to-be-released 1.99.3. Fontconfig will find the
    fonts for us just fine.

    Dom

    --- Jost Ammon <jost@ammon-web.de> wrote:
    > I have linked the windoze TT Fonts that I have on
    >
    > giosetti@linux:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF> ls -l
    > insgesamt 7548
    > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 129676 Jul 22
    > 2000 Gothicb.TTF
    > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 139084 Jul 22
    > 2000 Gothicbi.TTF
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45030 Jul 13
    > 2002 fonts.scale
    > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 196588 Mai 21
    > 1998 gara.ttf
    > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 198540 Mai 21
    > 1998 garabd.ttf
    > etc.
    >
    > to
    >
    /home/giosetti/autosave/abiword/abiword-1.0.6/unixfonts/fonts:
    >
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 1772 Jun 21
    > 2001 d050000l.u2g
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 2832 Jul 12
    > 2001 dingbats.e2u
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 5251 Jan 15
    > 2002 fonts.dir
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 5465 Mai 16
    > 2002 fonts.scale
    > lrwxrwxrwx 1 giosetti users 37 Jul 26
    > 11:36 gara.ttf ->
    > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/gara.ttf
    >
    > But they don't appear in the Abiword font-scrollbar.
    >
    > What do I have to do to make them recognizable by
    > Abiword (1.0.6 - Gtk)?
    >
    > Jost
    >
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