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[ILUG] Fonts tip

[ILUG] Fonts tip

Brendan Arthurs brenarthilug at eircom.net
Thu Feb 7 13:30:09 GMT 2002


> Mandrake has a tool called drakfont that has a button "Get Windows Fonts". It 
> reads the fonts from your windows partition. I've never used it, mainly 
> because I don't have a windows partition.

An alternative is to copy whatever True Type fonts you have under Windows 
to a folder on your Linux partition and add this to your font path.
Exact details are available at
http://www.netsoc.ucd.ie/ldp/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO-4.html

It makes everything a lot more comfortable to look at.

Bren






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