Installing ttf fonts

usercsr · 03-31-2004, 07:29 AM

hi,

I have a '.ttf' font file that is needed to see the characters in a particular website. how do i install it so that firefox will be able to show those special fonts. i tried copying it into /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF directory but it doesn't work. thanks for your help

Justin_Time · 03-31-2004, 07:35 AM

Make sure that the directory you put your .tft files in is listed in your /etc/X11/Xfree86conf file.

terosaur · 03-31-2004, 08:18 AM

Make sure the directory is uncommented in the /etc/X11/XF86Config

In the directory you copied the .ttf font to, run the commands: mkfontdir, mkfontscale and fc-cache (I think the order is correct, but I'm not 100%)

Restart X.

Ninja Cow · 03-31-2004, 07:22 PM

terosaur! Thank you! I've been trying to find a solution to this problem for the past three weeks now. You are a Godsend.

carboncopy · 03-31-2004, 07:32 PM

You can also put the fonts in any other directory for example /usr/local/fonts
and edit the file /etc/fonts/fonts.conf by adding the line

<dir>/usr/local/fonts</dir>

where you see there are others. And at the console run fc-cache.