fonts

[Rick Stevens]

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)
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