Yuri, Thank you for your reply and your request for more information. I am running a crystallography application that uses X11 to draw its GUI. It has no "preferences" dialogue and apparently picks up its font from what is available to X11. I have many fonts installed in my system that are available to other applications such as LibreOffice. However, for the crystallography application, I cannot change the font, which currently looks bad. If I run "xlsfonts" to see which fonts are available to the X server, I get only old generic fonts and I do not see my TrueType or Type1 fonts. I have tried adding font paths to my Xorg.conf file, but this does not work.
BTW, I know about the font management utility in KDE and I also use the Gnome Font Manager from KDE. I also know about Font Matrix, but I do not need to design or tweak fonts for my work. The most I would need is the ability to select fonts for X11 and perhaps be able to turn on options such as hinting and antialiasing, as I can for most of the applications that I run under linux/KDE. Thanks again. Best regards, Rudy On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Yuri Chornoivan wrote: > ???????? Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:33:58 +0200, <rjrich at umich.edu>: > >> Please include information on how to make fonts available to X11. > > Hi, > > Can you clarify what do you mean by "how to make fonts available to X11". > > By the way, KDE has built-in font management utility. It can be run from > System Settings (Font management) or from KRunner (Alt+F2, "kcmshell4 > fontinst", Enter). > > The help is available from the Font management window or from docs.kde.org: > > http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kde-workspace/kcontrol/fontinst/index.html > > If you are a professional designer, I recommend you to use Fontmatrix: > > http://fontmatrix.be/ > > Fontmatrix is written on Qt, so it has a native look and fell in KDE > environment. > > Hope this helps. > > Best regards, > Yuri
