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vaidyanath 06-22-2010 02:04 AM
Tamil fonts
 
Hi!
I had down loaded & saved tamil fonts suitable for Ubunto.
Could you please advice how to intall them?
Thanks & regards
Vaidyanath

mobinskariya 06-22-2010 02:12 AM
try copying the fonts to the folder /usr/share/fonts. You need to have root permissions to perform this or do it with sudo command.
Code:
sudo cp yourfont /usr/share/fonts/

catkin 06-22-2010 02:29 AM
Here's my log of installing Tamil fonts on ubuntu 8.04. Hopefully some useful clues.

Code:
Tamil fonts
21aug8
Sources of information:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-fonts-482026/
http://www.ncb.ernet.in/bharateeyaoo/
http://bosslinux.in/documentation/de...apping-layout/
http://bosslinux.in/documentation/de...w-to-use-scim/
http://bosslinux.in/documentation/de...n-open-office/
http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/common/unicode/help.html
1.If doing this again the University of Pennsylvania TAMILFIX and TAMILNET fonts are best suited to learning Tamil because they are the least ornamented so consider installing them alone.
Using Synaptic, installed:
openoffice.org-l10n-ta-in <none> 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2
scim-modules-table <none> 0.5.7-2ubuntu1
scim-tables-additional <none> 0.5.7-2ubuntu1
ttf-tamil-fonts <none> 1:0.5.0-0ubuntu1
2.Rebooted
3.Found new directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-tamil-fonts created and populated.
4.Created /usr/share/fonts/truetype/UPenn
5.Copied C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\tamilfix.ttf and tamilnet.ttf to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/UPenn
6.Set their perms to root:root 644.
7.As user c, ran /usr/lib/openoffice/program/spadmin
        Fonts, Add
       
        Browsed to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-tamil-fonts and UPenn in turn
        Create soft links only:  ticked
        Select All
        OK
8.Prepared new font directories for X use:
        cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ ttf-tamil-fonts and UPenn in turn
        mkfontscale
        mkfontdir
9.Rebooted.
10.Viewed /var/log/Xorg.0.log and found:
(==) No FontPath specified.  Using compiled-in default.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
    Entry deleted from font path.
(==) FontPath set to:
    /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
    /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
    /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
    /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
    /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
    /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
    /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType
11.Test: viewed “/home/c/d/Tamil/Tamil for English Speakers.odt”.  OK.  Maybe only OOo is using Tamil fonts but that's all that's required now
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