Fonts on X - solved

[Rick Stevens]

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 16:54 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> On Fri, September 1, 2006 9:08 am, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> > Some time ago, there was a note about putting fonts into X for use with both
> > the display and OpenOffice.org, etc.
> >
> > I kept the docs and had used them on a couple FC4 systems and a RH8.0 system
> > with success.
> >
> > I've upgraded 2 of the systems to FC5 and the same processes don't work.
> >
> > Here's what I do:
> >
> > unzip/untar fonts to /usr/share/X11/fonts/NEWFONTDIR
> > cd NEWFONTDIR
> > mkfontdir -a `pwd`
> > mkfontscale
> > chkfontpath -a `pwd`
> > service xfs restart
> >
> > So, what am I missing? Even a dreaded MS-like reboot did nothing. I've checked
> > permissions and whatever else I could think of with a fuzzy brain.
> >
> > I did find a small set of windows fonts in an RPM online somewhere during the
> > late hours last night. It's rpm was created by the author of the web page and
> > is: msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm
> 
> Okay, the overwhelming response was, well, underwhelming, so with a fresh
> brain this afternoon, I dug in a bit more. The msttcorefonts are now
> installed, but I copied the fonts from my WIN2000 server and have installed
> those, as well as about 1200 other fonts on a CD my wife wants me to be able
> to use to create docs for her...
> 
> Here's what I did:
> 
> locate msttcorefonts revealed that I could
> # cd /usr/share/fonts
> # ls <=- the fonts I had available were there. Annoying that the path change
> in FC5 hosed all the fonts in
> # cd /usr/share/X11/fonts
> 
> I did
> # mv /usr/share/fonts/* /usr/share/X11/fonts
> # rmdir /usr/share/fonts
> # ln -s /usr/share/X11/fonts /usr/share/fonts
> 
> Then, I wrote a script named updfonts.sh:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "update file is /etc/X11/fs/config"
> #DR=/usr/share/X11/fonts ;# linked to next line dir
> DR=/usr/share/fonts
> cd $DR
> echo "Directory listing of $DR"
> ls -t | grep -v util | grep -v encodings
> echo -n "Enter Directory Where Your New Fonts Are (x=cancel) : "
> read FD
> if [ "$FD" = '' -o "$FD" = 'x' ] ; then
>   cd $DR
>   echo 'Nothing Done'
>   exit 1
> fi
> cd $FD
> mkfontdir -a `pwd`
> mkfontscale
> chkfontpath -r `pwd`
> chkfontpath -a `pwd`
> service xfs restart
> cd $DR
> exit 0
> 
> After running it against every directory it showed, yes, one at a time because
> I'm a control freak, my fonts showed up in OpenOffice.org, Firefox, etc. I'm a
> happy, yet blissfully annoying, person again...

Sorry I didn't respond earlier, Karl, but I've been putting out
brushfires like farking mad around here and I'm functioning (and I use
that term loosely) on about 7 hours of sleep total in the last 4 days.

I'm pooped!

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