[nflug] Install fonts Fedora 9

[Mike Richardson]

If you want to install fonts only for yourself. you can do so by
creating a .fonts (that's dot-fonts) directory in your home directory.

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:06 PM, K O <wpos2 at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> My biggest obstacle was figuring out what the relative directory was, so I
> created one.  Copied the fonts I wanted installed and ran mkfontscale and
> mkfontdir within that directory.  It works!  It seems that I was googling
> the wrong thing.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Cyber Source pisze:
>>
>> dont know about f9 persay but copy the fonts into the relative directory
>> under /usr/share/fonts then run mkfontscale and then mkfontdir. They should
>> then be available system wide.
>>
>> K O wrote:
>>>
>>> Greetings members of the List.
>>>
>>> How the hell do you install fonts in Fedora 9?  I'm not necessarily
>>> looking to install the MS core fonts, but to install an individual TTF (or
>>> Type 1, or whatever compatible format of font) on demand.
>>> - There's no button "go to fonts directory" in the lower center of the
>>> font rendering control panel.
>>> - The fonts protocol does not work under Nautilus.
>>>
>>> TIA for anyone who can shed light on this.
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