Hi,

I havent been trying out the stuff u suggested, coz i havent been able to get any windows fonts....
I will get back with problems if any, when i do something...
also, i will post a description, when i successfully do it.

regards
unpredictable

You can use a fontdownloader script that will automatically download many many fonts for you:

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Click Me 2 [3218 free fonts]
Click Me 3 [6700 fonts]
Click Me 4 [6760 fonts]

Boby

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If you want, i can send you some TT fonts i have. PM for details.

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Boby!

Thats discriminating....
Anyway.. I think I will find a windows PC and get those... By the way...can anyone tell me which directory does Windows XP save its fonts ???

regards
unpredictable

c:\windows\Fonts\

Boby

That's really discriminating.

Please take a look:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...8587#post98587

This is Jeremy's decision! And I thing he is right. You can search the forum for more info about this

Ya seems he is right...


regards
unpredictable

Hi,

I copied the folder c:\WINDOWS\Fonts from a remote PC.

Then in konqueror I typed I created a folder "windows" there and pasted all fonts. Not much seemed to happen. So I opened Control Center and looked up the font installer. I logged into admin mode and installed the fonts in the already present "TTF" subdirectory.

Now, all KDE based application, i.e. which start with a K, KWord, Control Center, the KDE environment can see those fonts, but "OpenOffice.org Writer" or any other application related to it didnt show up any fonts.

As FONTS are basically used so that I can document well and also see some webpages well...so please tell me where to put those fonts. I dont want to put those fonts in 2-3 places as they take up 80 MB of space.

regards
unpredictable

You need to tell a system to use these fonts in LookNFeel>Fonts. Also turn antialiasing on.

Well...

The KDE system is using those fonts..... its the other applications not using it...

and btw, my control center is a little modified... i m using fedora core 2.

regards
unpredictable.

I know 2 ways to use microsoft fonts or other in linux:

1)
The easyest way :P .. and the best if you want only microsoft fonts.
Download and install the RPM you find on this page:
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...ebbd7a3896#ttf
Tipp: You can find on that page a lot of other good howto's.

2)
mkdir ~/.fonts
cd to your windows folder [where you mounted the partition]
ex: cd /mnt/win_hdd/windows/Fonts
cp *.ttf ~/.fonts
cd ~./fonts
chown -R user:user *
also I thing you have to use then /etc/init.d/xfs restart

OpenOffice.org can not see this fonts, but you can use oopadmin to enable them . Start this as root to make system wide changes, or as normal user to make them only for this one.

Hope this helped!
Boby

Superb solution...

The first solution is simply great..... All applications... including OpenOffice.org automatically started using Windows fonts.....and ya that site contains a lot of good how tos...

thanks...

regards
unpredictable

Ohhhh my god.....

My XMMS crashed.... all because of the font upgrade. Look at this....

What should I do to repair this ??

regards
unpredictable.