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Go to your .fonts dir and look for a file fonts.dir in that .. That file should contain a list of all fonts in your .fonts directory.. For eg have a look at the following file
Code:
37
gautami.ttf -microsoft-Gautami-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1
mangal.ttf -microsoft-Mangal-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-10
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-11
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-13
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-16
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-3
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-4
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-5
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-7
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-8
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-ru
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-ansi
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1250
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1251
micross.ttf -microsoft-Microsoft Sans Serif-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1252
The 37 in the first line is the total no of fonts that the ttf files contain ( Not the total number of ttf files) and there should be description for all the 37 fonts in the next lines... The fonts.dir should be in a format as above.. Otherwise delete it, go to home directory, execute that mkfontdir command again..
So If it doesn't work again ...., look for a fonts.scale file ( created by ttmkfontdir . here the step 4 comes to help) .. in the same directory. If it doesnt there just copy the output of your ttmkfdir to the file fonts.dir ( From the output poseted by you it seems that your ttmkfdir is an older version .. You may have to redirect the output to fonts.dir file )
Then do xset +fp $HOME/.fonts and check for any errors. If no errors restart X.
I finally succeeded to install a bunch of Thai font in this folder:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
I just copied them directly in this folder and this work great in Open Offic Org, I can type and print, the result is perfect.
My problem is that these Thai fonts won't display correctly in other programs. A default font appears instead an the position of vowels is not correct.
I would like these thai fonts to work for all text Editors, Mozilla browser-composer-mail, messanger, etc...
i've converted tff file to pfb and placed it under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1. i can use it in terminal now, or so. the same thing when i've copied tff font to ~/.fonts
but i still cannot use them with mozilla. all the fonts i've added were correctly described in ~/.fonts.cache-1. what should i do to use them with mozilla?
Hi, I installed a whole collection of fonts as root with no problem at all. Thing is I log in as a user and absolutely ALL characters in KDE appear as white boxes (= not reading the fonts somehow). Could it have anything to do with file permissions??
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