Looking for a good fonts package
 

Does anyone know where a good Linux fonts package can be found? I'm not very fond of my current selection. No Ariel. :(

Since you don't mention your distro, and what kind of packaging system you need, here is a document about fonts in Linux, complete with links to sources of fonts.

My distro is under my name. :D

Thank you for the link. I'll check it out.

Excellent! I finally have some nice, easy to read, fonts for my Firefox broswer! Thanks a lot for your help, bigrigdriver!

Here are the default font settings for Firefox Windows, in case anyone is curious:

Proportional --- Serif --- 16
Serif --- Times New Roman
Sans-Serif --- Arial
Monospace --- Courier New --- 13

Minimum Font Size [none]

Oops! My bad. Wasn't paying attention. Most sincere apologies.

If you have Microshaft Windows you could copy your ttf fonts and install them on Linux.

Easier said than done though. :D How many paragraphs of command line would I need to type in to do that? LOL! :D

Thank you for the suggestion though. You all have been very nice and helpful. I may be able to stick with Linux this time around. :) I've tried it many times in the past, but I always gave up because of some problem. It's nice to have a forum like this available.

Here is an "idiots" guide to installing MS or MAC truetype fonts on Mandrake ;)

1. Copy your MS or MAC truetype fonts to a CD or usb removable drive in a directory named "fonts".
2. Login into Linux as a normal user and insert the CD or usb stick. Take note of the mount path of your media i.e. /mnt/cdrom or /mnt/removeablemedia. Mandrake auto mounts stuff so a quick look in the subdirectories under /mnt will show which one has the fonts. I will use /mnt/cdrom in this example.
3. Start a console session and switch to root using "su -"
4. Create a directory called /usr/share/fonts/ttf/msfonts
   
   Code:

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   #mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf/msfonts

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5. change into that directory
   
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   #cd /usr/share/fonts/ttf/msfonts

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6. Copy the fonts into this directory e.g.
   
   Code:

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   #cp /mnt/cdrom/fonts/* .

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7. When the fonts are all copied (it only takes a few seconds), run the following commands
   
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   #mkfontdir
#mkfontscale

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8. Log out and back in again and your fonts should be ready for use by all applications.

You can also use kfontinstaller, but I prefer the above method because it works regardless of which desktop environment or window manager you are using.

Dang I love idiots guides! :) I do enough thinking in my life and for my day job. The less thinking the better. :D Thanks a lot for the guide. I'm sure it'll be of some service to anyone who may have a similar problem in the future.