[ILUG] fonts

[John P. Looney]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 01:58:19PM +0000, P at draigBrady.com mentioned:
> I just checked this and it works:
> 
> $ cp fontname.pcf ~/.fonts
> $ fc-cache
> 
> Now one can select the font.
> If it's not showing then confirm
> it's not actually installed with
> 
> $ fc-list | grep -i fontname
> 
> The above procedure works for any type of font

 It may hate me;

[john at cosimo ~]$  fc-cache
[john at cosimo ~]$ ls -l .fonts
total 220
-rw-r--r--  1 john john 157904 Oct  1 19:13 bloofs__.ttf
-rw-rw-r--  1 john john  22084 Oct  1 19:13 cenobyte.ttf
-rw-rw-r--  1 john john   1253 Nov 25 13:31 fonts.cache-1
-rw-rw-r--  1 john john  23408 Nov 25 12:03 kates7x14.pcf
[john at cosimo ~]$ fc-list | grep -i kates

 Aha. That font was based on a much older (rasterman) font, Nexus. I
didn't change the name in the .bcf file - and Nexus is now how it's known
on my system. 

[john at cosimo .fonts]$ fc-list | grep -i nexus
Nexus:style=Regular

 Phew. Thanks Padraig!

John