Fresh copy of Fedora Core 4, Now time for Fonts!

Ok, I have tried everything possible with my install of FC4 to get True type fonts looking good, So atm i am installing a completely new fresh copy on my linux box, so could someone pleas tell me how to get True Type fonts working with a new install of FC4, everything i need to donwload and that, becuase what im after is to use Tahoma as my main GUI font in KDE, and for it to look like it does in windows, because it kept looking all sharp and squashed.
So the install is nearly complete now, and any help will be aprecciated!

Thanks in advance.
Mark

Download the fonts or get them from MS windows. Make a directory in /usr/share/fonts called msttf. Copy the truetype fonts there and do "mkfontdir" and "mkfontscale" in that directory (/usr/share/fonts/msttf). Log out and in again and your fonts will be ready for use. If you use GNOME, you may need to copy the fonts to ~/.fonts as well.

Download the font, open up Nautilus, do fonts: in the location bar and drag and drop fonts into there. Can't remember if you need to restart X to see them, I don't think so.

Open up Control Centre (kcontrol) - go tho the Fonts section under Appearance and Themes - check the anti-alias box. Click on Configure and check Use Sub-Pixel Hinting and use Greyscale with a medium rating.

Smoothest fonts you've ever seen.
http://www.ulujain.org/cgi-bin/album...owsvslinux.jpg
Compare the difference. The smudging of the links is due to jpg artifacting.

reddazz: Cool! You learn something new every day.

Originally posted by WhatsHisName reddazz: Cool! You learn something new every day.

I guess from your reaction, the method above worked for you.

Yes, it did. It’s nice to have Arial again.

All I did extra was to chown and chgrp to root and chmod to 755, just to be consistent with the other font folders. GNOME worked fine without any extra mods after logging out/in once.

I had trouble with this initially. Fedora Core 4 is moving to a new font system called fontconfig. The details are available in their release notes. Here is the URL:

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/

FC4 still has the old Xfont server so I want to keep both updated. Here's the script I wrote:

#!/bin/sh

echo Rebuilding core X Font Server on /usr/share/fonts/local . . .
ttmkfdir -d /usr/share/fonts/local/ -o /usr/share/fonts/local/fonts.scale
mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/local
echo done.
echo

echo Rebuilding for fontconfig . . .
fc-cache /usr/share/fonts/local
echo done.
echo

this assumes that tmkfdir, etc are in your path. Run as root.

Hope this helps someone!