fetchmsttfonts command in SuSE 7.3

[chadm1967]

Hi all,

I just found out that SuSE includes a "tool" that aids in the installation of some Microsoft truetype fonts. If you run 'fetchmsttfonts' from a command line, it will take you to the MS site and download the fonts. The only problem that I'm having is that it opens the site in a text browser and I have no idea how to navigate a text browser. I think it's using lynx to navigate to the site.

Thanks for any help you can give.

[Curtiss]

Hi, this work for me using suse 7.1. If you dual boot with windows you can copy the truetype fonts from windows dir to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype

Then in a terminal window as root:

ttmkfdir >fonts.dir

Then run SuSEconfig and the truetype fonts will be available in linux.

I have not tried the method you mentioned. Hope this helps.

[chadm1967]

Thanks for the help. I'm not dual-booting with Windows but I do have the fonts copied to a zip disk. I did what you suggested and it worked. Thanks a lot for the help!

:)