Hi Nadav,
While trying your suggestion I got the following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# chkfontpath -a /usr/local/ms-fonts
chkfontpath: error opening /usr/local/ms-fonts/fonts.dir, unwilling to add path
What went wrong?
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Israel Shikler
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nadav Har'El
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 10:12 AM
To: Jonathan Ben Avraham
Cc: softkol; ILUG
Subject: Re: Hebrew TTF in with RedHat Linux.
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about "Re: Hebrew TTF in with
RedHat Linux.":
> 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, 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.
You don't need to pay anything if you already own a legal license of Windows.
I don't know anyone, not even myself, who never bought a Windows license,
willingly or unwillingly (preinstalled with a computer.
So, if you have a Windows installation, you can copy all the TTF files
from it to your Linux disk, and put them on some directory, say
/usr/local/microsoft-fonts.
Then you need to tell your software to use them. Unfortunately, on Linux
there are many font standards, and each program uses it's own, so getting
all your software to recognize these fonts is not trivial. If you have
a modern distribution (e.g., Fedora), I suggest you start with running
the command
chkfontpath -a /usr/local/microsoft-fonts
As root (it's a one time operation, you don't need to repeat it after
logins or reboots).
If you want OpenOffice to use these fonts, the previous commands may or
not be enough, depending on your exact software versions (e.g., strangely
enough it was enough on Fedora Core 1, but no longer works on Fedora Core 3).
If it doesn't work (the MS Fonts don't appear on the OpenOffice menus), you
can try running ~/.openoffice/spadmin or ~/OpenOffice*/spadmin if you have
such a thing, and adding all the fonts in that directory. If even that doesn't
work, you can give OpenOffice your own copy of the fonts. I think (but
I'm not sure) you create a directory ~/.fonts, and then create symbolic
links there for all the TTF fonts. Someone please correct me if this is
the wrong directory name.
Of course, what I just said is legal only if you own a license of Windows
and and are using the fonts for your personal use. Distributing these fonts
to others, or installing them on more than one machine, is probably not
legal.
P.S. Personally, I keep a copy of the TTF files from an old installation
of Windows NT I once legally had. These fonts don't really "age", and I
continue to use them with no problems. I don't see any legal or moral
issues with the fact I continue to use these fonts long after I erased
Windows NT (the kernel) from that computer - any more than I would see
an issue if someone bought a CD, copied just one song from it to a separate
CD, and then threw away the original CD.
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