Fonts in Linux

[James T. Carver]

On Sunday 15 May 2005 03:19 pm, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> James T. Carver said:
> > adding them using XFS and using xfontsel
> > does not add them to the free type cache.  Firefox uses the free type
> > fonts
> > if it can find them.  I have packaged several fonts in an RPM to install
> > them
> > on my FC3 box here and when I installed them they worked perfectly.
>
> Uhg. This stuff is supposed to get easier not harder.
>
> How do you create a font rpm and what is it about it that triggers the
> freetype font cache thing? If I just modify a fonts-* xorg src.rpm will
> that do it?
>
> Mike

Mike,

go to linux.org and look at the fonts howto page, thats where I finally 
figured out how to add the fonts I had collected so I could use them in 
Linux. the how to tells you how to make the RPM file... gives you everything 
you need to know.

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Font-HOWTO

James
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