At 06:53 AM 05/31/01, Praedor Tempus wrote:
>Last evening I installed some Leonardo DaVinci-style TT fonts from a windows
>floppy I have using drakfont. It seemed to go OK, in that I could navigate
>to the /mnt/floppy drive and see the ttfs there. I selected them and
>installed. When I run drakfont now, I see the leonardo fonts are listed and
>if I select them, they appear as they should in the preview window.
>
>I decided to test them out. I first started kword (latest koffice from
>cooker) and selected the leonardo font. When I started typing, nothing
>appeared and the cursor vanished as well. Nothing I did would make them
>display.
>
>I then opened kwrite and tried to select the leonardo fonts there but they
>were not there to be selected. I reopened drakfont and they are there and
>display properly in drakfont, as before.
>
>What is the deal here? What steps are necessary to make these fonts become
>properly available to all my various apps?
After you installed the font, did you log out of X and restart xfs?
