The KDE desktop has a nice application built in to add fonts. The Gnome desktop is from a time when programmers lived in caves and ate their young. You have to know the super secret directories to copy into, then the 3 name never spoken script files to edit.
There is a Gnome font adding application, but most distros don't include it. On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 21:05 -0700, SillyOne wrote: > My question is really basic, but I couldn't find anything about it, sorry. > > So here goes. > > Adding fonts to the windows version of LE is simple, just add them to the > "c:/windows/fonts" folder (or install via control panel), and you can use > them in LE just as in any other applications. > But in Linux (I'm using Linux Mint 11 x64) I can't figure out how to get it > done. > > *what I have tried:* > 1) copied the fonts to "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/windows-fonts", updated > the font cache doing sudo fc-cache -fv, they show up using fc-list, but they > didn't show up in LibreOffice. > 2) opened the font in font viewer and clicked install, same as above. > > I'd prefer a solution that can be automated (I'm about to install hundreds > of fonts), but everything is appreciated. > > Thank you! > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/add-ttf-fonts-to-LibreOffice-tp3241306p3241306.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions (630)-205-1593 http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net No U.S. troops have ever lost their lives defending our ethanol reserves. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
