On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:55:05PM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, softkol wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > How do we add TTF in Hebrew to be used with applications in Linux? > > > > Is there a way to port TTF from MS and use them with Linux?
Yes. Most of the programs you care about use Xft. With a standard configuration , simply copy the fonts files to new subdirectory under /usr/share/fonts , and then run (as root) fc-cache . > > Yes, it's very simple - pay a license fee to the holders of the font > copyrights and you can do it. Or you can purchase extra per-user licenses > directly from Microsoft. He has already bought a license to use those fonts with his system. > > Now there are a few old "Microsoft core fonts" that you can use freely, > but "use" does not mean "modify". Those fonts happen to be almost freely *distributable*: as long as the original format is maintained, they remain freely-distributable. But we're talking about fonts from the eixsting system for personal suse only. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
