On Thursday 31 May 2001 08:53 am, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> Last evening I installed some Leonardo DaVinci-style TT fonts from a
> windows floppy I have using drakfont. It seemed to go OK, in that I
> could navigate to the /mnt/floppy drive and see the ttfs there. I
> selected them and installed. When I run drakfont now, I see the
> leonardo fonts are listed and if I select them, they appear as they
> should in the preview window.
> I decided to test them out. I first started kword (latest koffice
> from cooker) and selected the leonardo font. When I started typing,
> nothing appeared and the cursor vanished as well. Nothing I did
> would make them display.
> I then opened kwrite and tried to select the leonardo fonts there but
> they were not there to be selected. I reopened drakfont and they are
> there and display properly in drakfont, as before.
> What is the deal here? What steps are necessary to make these fonts
> become properly available to all my various apps?
Since installing 8.0 a few weeks ago, I've run 'drakfont' in a term
as root several times. It appears to do it's job, there's no error
msg's in the term, but no Windoze ttf's were available either. I also
tried with the latest cooker drakfont..src.rpm, and 'normal' and
'strong' checking.
Finally I just copied comic.ttf and cour.ttf from /c/windows/fonts/
to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ and to my amazement, nothing else
had to be done. Those 2 Winblows fonts were then available to all KDE
apps! IIRC, I believe I did logout/back into KDE. I have AA enabled,
pci Voodoo3 using XF-4.0.3 w/3d accel.
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Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
