[newbie] Installing Fonts...
Hi everyone! Is there a GUI for installing fonts in MDK 9.1 or does it have to be done through console? If there is, where is it? Thanks alot!! -R __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Fonts...
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 05:43, olive nepredofsk wrote: Hi everyone! Is there a GUI for installing fonts in MDK 9.1 or does it have to be done through console? If there is, where is it? Thanks alot!! -R Hey man, open up the Mandrake Control Centre, and go to SYSTEM, then DrakFont Installer - easy as pulling a greased string outta cat's ass! -- Tue Apr 1 05:45:00 EST 2003 05:45:01 up 10 days, 17:32, 3 users, load average: 0.13, 0.20, 0.29 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Some men feel that the only thing they owe the woman who marries them is a grudge. -- Helen Rowland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing fonts in Mandrake Control Center (mcc) -TIP
Terry, Jerry, Please, please! Doug On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 14:00, Terry Sheltra wrote: I agree. That would definitely be a cool idea to have some of the other listers on here post some tips and tricks about Mandrake. I'd even like to see it become a mailing list all its own. It would greatly help us newbies, and perhaps even the experts as well. Here here! Terry Jerry Barton wrote: snip I think it would be cool to see some other tips other listers may have (posted under a new topic so that a search in the archive would find it... maybe starting with TIP: ) that they've found. I'm by no means a guru (or even a guru in training lol) just a normal person using Linux on my Desktop. I could sure benefit from it (and I'm sure others would too), and if no one has any objections, I'll occasionally post little tips I use. Just seems like a neat idea to share a little help that might not have been specifically asked about but is still very useful! I might even use my webserver to set up a site with TIP: topics from the list we could refer people too as well. What do you all think? Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Douglas B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing fonts in Mandrake Control Center (mcc) - TIP
On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 8:21 am, Jerry Barton wrote: While having font problems (see my previous post) I thought of something which might help people. So, here's how you can add a whole folder of fonts to be added as a batch. Related question - I used MCC to add all my windows fonts - without remembering just how many I had accumulated. I would like to remove many of them, but the uninstall package just seems to offer me whole directories of fonts. Is there any way I can uninstalled selected fonts? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing fonts in Mandrake Control Center (mcc) -TIP
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:44:49 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 8:21 am, Jerry Barton wrote: While having font problems (see my previous post) I thought of something which might help people. So, here's how you can add a whole folder of fonts to be added as a batch. Related question - I used MCC to add all my windows fonts - without remembering just how many I had accumulated. I would like to remove many of them, but the uninstall package just seems to offer me whole directories of fonts. Is there any way I can uninstalled selected fonts? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Anne: There sure is :) Go to mcc system fonts click on the Uninstall Fonts button. DOUBLEclick the folder that the fonts you want to remove are in. Then, on the right the list of fonts in that folder should come up. hold ctrl and select the fonts you want removed in the right hand pane click uninstall list it will show you a list of the fonts you are going to remove and ask if you're sure. Accept. (i don't have windows but i believe the folder from the list is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont (then either Type1 or ttf) that holds the windows fonts. HTH Jerry. -- -- Registered Linux user # 300600 Registered Linux machine # 185855 at http://counter.li.org (¬_ //\ V_/_ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing fonts in Mandrake Control Center (mcc) - TIP
On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 11:23 am, Jerry Barton wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:44:49 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 8:21 am, Jerry Barton wrote: While having font problems (see my previous post) I thought of something which might help people. So, here's how you can add a whole folder of fonts to be added as a batch. Related question - I used MCC to add all my windows fonts - without remembering just how many I had accumulated. I would like to remove many of them, but the uninstall package just seems to offer me whole directories of fonts. Is there any way I can uninstalled selected fonts? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Anne: There sure is :) Go to mcc system fonts click on the Uninstall Fonts button. DOUBLEclick the folder that the fonts you want to remove are in. Then, on the right the list of fonts in that folder should come up. hold ctrl and select the fonts you want removed in the right hand pane click uninstall list it will show you a list of the fonts you are going to remove and ask if you're sure. Accept. (i don't have windows but i believe the folder from the list is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont (then either Type1 or ttf) that holds the windows fonts. Thanks, Jerry, that sounds good. When I saw the folders listed I thought I was going to have to remove the whole folder. I'm still sometimes hesitant about trying something - I've been bitten too often by M$ suddenly taking off and doing something I didn't want that screws everything up ;) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing fonts in Mandrake Control Center (mcc) -TIP
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:15:00 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Jerry, that sounds good. When I saw the folders listed I thought I was going to have to remove the whole folder. I'm still sometimes hesitant about trying something - I've been bitten too often by M$ suddenly taking off and doing something I didn't want that screws everything up ;) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 heheheh I certainly know what you mean there! -- -- Registered Linux user # 300600 Registered Linux machine # 185855 at http://counter.li.org (¬_ //\ V_/_ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing fonts in Mandrake Control Center (mcc) -TIP
I agree. That would definitely be a cool idea to have some of the other listers on here post some tips and tricks about Mandrake. I'd even like to see it become a mailing list all its own. It would greatly help us newbies, and perhaps even the experts as well. Here here! Terry Jerry Barton wrote: snip I think it would be cool to see some other tips other listers may have (posted under a new topic so that a search in the archive would find it... maybe starting with TIP: ) that they've found. I'm by no means a guru (or even a guru in training lol) just a normal person using Linux on my Desktop. I could sure benefit from it (and I'm sure others would too), and if no one has any objections, I'll occasionally post little tips I use. Just seems like a neat idea to share a little help that might not have been specifically asked about but is still very useful! I might even use my webserver to set up a site with TIP: topics from the list we could refer people too as well. What do you all think? Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Asst. Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Registered Linux User #218330 Composed on a 100% Microsoft-free PC Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing fonts
Miark wrote: Does Linux suffer at all if you load in a mountain of fonts? Other than perhaps slowing things down a bit, there should be no probvlem if they're good fonts - broken fonts can make X hang. Oh, and don't try to make them all accessible to OpenOffice unless you have a very fast system! Sir Robin -- You almost never hear that word computer anymore, do you? They're part of everything now. They used to be boxes with keyboards, you know. - Tad Williams Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing fonts
Miark wrote: Does Linux suffer at all if you load in a mountain of fonts? Other than perhaps slowing things down a bit, there should be no probvlem if they're good fonts - broken fonts can make X hang. Oh, and don't try to make them all accessible to OpenOffice unless you have a very fast system! Sir Robin Supposing I already have a lot of fonts accessible to OpenOffice, how do I go about making some of them unaccessible. TIA, --- Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing fonts
Guilherme Cirne wrote: Miark wrote: Does Linux suffer at all if you load in a mountain of fonts? Other than perhaps slowing things down a bit, there should be no probvlem if they're good fonts - broken fonts can make X hang. Oh, and don't try to make them all accessible to OpenOffice unless you have a very fast system! Sir Robin Supposing I already have a lot of fonts accessible to OpenOffice, how do I go about making some of them unaccessible. spadmin Sir Robin -- A free man ought not to learn anything under duress. Compulsory physical exercise does no harm to the body, but compulsory learning never sticks in the mind. - Plato Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] installing fonts in gimp
I realise this might be OT...but, how do you install fonts for gimp..the program doesn't come with any...you have to download them, then install them...I installed them into the /usr/shared/fonts...but gimp can't find them. ==Kit== ICQ#: 7110071 E-Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HomePage: http://members.xoom.com/kitgoins Personal Server: http://kompukit.myip.org ==Kit==
Re: [newbie] Installing Fonts
Sebastian Vaisov wrote: Hello, newbie I need to install cyrillic fonts to linux. I'm using Mandrake 5.3 with KDE. I need cyrillic fonts in netscape. How could I install the fonts? Anybody could talk here russian? I believe there is a HOWTO on cyrillic fonts included on the Mandrake CD. Also, you will want to install the cyrillic font package. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Installing Fonts
Hello, newbie I need to install cyrillic fonts to linux. I'm using Mandrake 5.3 with KDE. I need cyrillic fonts in netscape. How could I install the fonts? Anybody could talk here russian? Best regards, Sebastian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Origin: ôÑÖÅÌÏ × ÌÅÞÅÎÉÉ, ÌÅÇËÏ × ÇÒÏÂÕ. Lithuania, Vilnius Sebastian - (22)736488 8-285-40386 ICQ UIN: 7282882 You can find me on IRC as ACiD
