This is related to fonts and stuff.  I downloaded a couple ttf fonts off
the web and dropped them my ~/.fonts directory (after creating it) and I
could use the fonts in gnome stuff no problem, but I ran the gimp and
the fonts were not in the list for it.  How do I get the gimp to use
these fonts?

Bryan

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 16:03, Michael L Torrie wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 15:25, Michael Halcrow wrote:
> 
> > > What does openoffice use for fonts?
> > 
> > Run spadmin.
> 
> It's actually far simpler than that.  Every version of OpenOffice since
> 1.0.1 contains it's own version of freetype and is capable of doing ttf
> fonts regardless of whether your system is set up to use them
> generally.  All you need to do to get openoffice to use ttf fonts is add
> the fontpath where the ttf fonts reside to X (using the old corefonts
> mechanism -- hopefully they will just move to Xft soo).  Here's how I do
> it:
> 
> 1.  unpack fonts somewhere
> 2.  go to the directory and do:
>       ttmkfdir
>       mkfontdir
>       xset fp+ `pwd`
> 3. edit either XF86Config or /etc/X11/fs/config and add that directory
> to the fontpath.  (because you did an xset, you don't have to restart
> anything -- this is for the next time X restarts)
> 
> The ttmkfdir, mkfontdir, and xset binaries are part of XFree86 core
> package.
> 
> 
> Anyway, no spadmin required.  As long as you know this, your openoffice
> will look good (as Evan can attest).
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
> > 
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