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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