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[ILUG] importing fonts

[ILUG] importing fonts

Conor Daly conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Thu Mar 29 15:28:43 IST 2001


On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:51:11PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
John P. Looney thought:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:46:00PM -0500, Jerry Boyko mentioned:
> > Can you import the fonts from your windows font folder to your Iinux
> > machine?  If so how do you do it?
> 
>  Edit your Font Server config file ( /etc/X11/fs/config ) and make sure it
> has something like;
> 
> # where to look for fonts
> #
> catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
>     /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
>     /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
>     /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
>     /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
>     /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
>     /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,
>     /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,
>     /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype,
>     /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1,
>     /dosc/winnt/Fonts,
>     /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts,
>     /usr/share/abisource/fonts

And furthermore, what's the licensing situation with using win32 fonts?
-- 
Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

Domestic Sysadmin :-)
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