I m using FC2...with KDE

and my problem is... that the list of available fonts to the applications is useless and ugly...
I want to get some Windows based fonts. is there a good website providing those ?

...and also where do i put them so that...
Mozilla, Firefox, OpenOffice, KDE, Gnome, Gaim, and other applications get it automatically in their lists.. ???

regards
unpredictable

if your dual booting and using a newer distro, you could just copy the fonts in your windows parition over to your linux partition. if you're using an older distro (like me) and dual booting, you can have your font installer install fonts from the windows partition.

if using a newer distro, you can always download ttf fonts from font sites to your fonts directory.

my global fonts directory where i installed windows fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType/

Hi,

I do have an option to drag and drop font files into the fonts:// thru konqueror...
but will that make those available globally??
I am using Fedora Core 2 with KDE 3.2.

And also, I dont have any other OS, so could you tell me a site to download windows fonts ??

regards
unpredictable

i think it depends which user konqueror is opened as. if a regular user, i think dropping fonts via konqueror using their fonts:// protocol will just make them available to that user only.

better to just copy and paste using konqueror as a regular file manager than through konqueror using some fonts:// protocol. (this is the first i've heard of fonts:// protocol though since i use an older distro that makes me go through a fonts installer and afm generation).

try dropping copies of your fonts in /usr/share/fonts

Ok.....

So last two problems left.....

1. Will it make the fonts available to all applications ??
2. Where do I get fonts from ??

regards
unpredictable

well if /usr/share/fonts is in your X11 font path (it should be), then yes, those fonts should be available to all users.

again, if you're dual booting, you can get fonts from your windows partition, if you've mounted your windows partition. if the fonts you want are from another computer, then go to that computer and copy the ttf fonts you want to a cd, mount the cd on the target computer, and copy the fonts from the cd to your computer. or if the other computer is on the network and you've shared that computer's c: drive, you could get the fonts via the network. or you could always go on the web to download fonts.

http://www.1001freefonts.com/

all the fonts there are ttf fonts.

There was a tip in the October 2004 edition of Linux Magazine on how to make Truetype fonts available in Linux; here is the sequence of commands. I tried it yesterday and it worked for me:

1. Assumng you have you some TrueType font (*.ttf) files copied to a directory such as /usr/share/fonts/truetype, run the following commands as root

cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype
ttmkfdir > fonts.scale
mkfontdir
/usr/sbin/chkfontpath -a /usr/share/fonts/truetype
fc-cache

When I tried this with some Truetype fonts it worked for me.

Regarding where to get True type fonts, google "truetype fonts free" and you will get a lot of links to explore.

You can get free fonts from here: http://grsites.com/fonts/

Ohhhh...god

Ok.... I will re explain... I have a PC... which has only one OS and that is Fedora Core 2.

"I" am the only user which uses the GUI of the PC, rest all users "ssh" to this PC, so I just want to customize "my GUI".
And I dont want to paste the fonts in 50 places to make it work for all
(like I had to do when I tried to put my flash plugin in konqueror, mozilla, firefox, netscape, ohhh..thats tedious)

so is there a straight forward way to put it somewhere so that all APPLICATION PROGRAMS running can use those ?
Even if the solution is KDE and FC2 specific, I will manage.

And do you know where all the fonts in the windows system are put so that I can copy from some PC over the network.

May be you are looking for Fontconfig program http://freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig and to change the fonts of the apps Gnome have a program to change fonts for the desktop the program is :'gnome-font-prop', but for KDE i don't know if there is a equivalent one.

_UnPrEdictAbLe_

That's how i did it:

Have you a friend that uses Windows? Ask him to copy TTF fonts, bring them to your machine and put somewhere. Then in "Configure your desktop" go to System>Font Installer. Click on "Administrator mode" and enter your root password. You will get a list of your fonts directories. Create new folder, name it M$ or whatever, then open it and click on "Add fonts" button in toolbar. It brings a standard navigation dialog, go to dir when you copied a fonts and select them all, then OK. You're done, fonts installed system-wide, just go to LookNFeel>Fonts and change them from there.

Last doubt....

SYSTEM WIDE by this you mean OPENOFFICE and FIREFOX will be able to automatically use it ??

regards
unpredictable

I'm not using Open Office so i don't know. Firefox will use it.

yes. when i say global or globally, i also mean system wide also. although it should be more like openoffice and some other program like koffice or gimp or amsn or konqueror, etc... will be able to use the fonts. i think for firefox to be able to use those fonts, you'll probably need to get the latest version of firefox which has an Xft requirement to make them look good. at least for me, i have my fonts in firefox displayed and choosable, but i haven't been able to make them look good.

Tom7 has made a lot of cool and free fonts. http://fonts.tom7.com