Tamil fonts

vaidyanath · 06-22-2010, 02:04 AM

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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