fonts

Fred Grant fdgrant at powercom.net
Wed May 25 20:25:01 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 19:00, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Fred Grant wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 18:22, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > 
> >>Fred Grant wrote:
> >>
> >>>Since you folks are mostly engineers and the like, maybe you can help
> >>>me.  I'd like to acquire a font such as that used by draftsmen or
> >>>architects.  I'd also like to get one that would simulate "longhand" or
> >>>cursive writing.  Preferably the fonts would be freeware.  I'll be using
> >>>then in Open Office, mainly for addressing letters.
> >>
> >>There are a bunch.  A google search will return a host of free sites.
> >>One is http://www.1001fonts.com/
> >>
> >>Open Office can use TrueType or Postscript type 1 fonts.  They're not
> >>too hard to install.  See
> >>
> >>	http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html#5
> >>
> >>for details.
> > 
> > 
> > I got the fonts to install after a little fooling around as, apparently,
> > spadmin doesn't allow new font installation in rhopenoffice.
> 
> That's odd.  Hmmm...I'll have to tinker (running FC3 myself).
> 
> >                                                               I dragged
> > and dropped them into a folder that already had TrueTypes installed. 
> > After a re-boot they showed up.
> 
> Well, that's even easier!  :-D
> 
> Obviously you found some fonts you liked.  Where did you grab them from?
> (to add to my "Here's a spot you might want to try..." file)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Rick, I was all over the place looking for them and I doubt that I could
show you where they came from.  I don't think any of them are going to
be the final answer to my quest but will suffice for now.
-- 
Fred




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