AA Fonts

[Chris L.]

I am using Mandrake linux and I want to use AA fonts from my windows partition. I used the drakfont utility and it said that it imported lots of fonts, but I can't use these in any programs. In the KDE Control Center, they don't show up.

So my question is, how can I import my windows fonts and then use them in linux?

Thanks a million,
Chris

[X_console]

Do you mean truetype fonts? Check around google and search for the truetype howto if that's what it is.

[Psycho]

Or check out the Fonts NHF. It's based on RH6 but it worked on RH7.2 and 'Drake is based on RH...

[mdwatts]

This is what I do to add TT fonts to my distro. Works fine for me.

Copy the Windows fonts to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/ (Create the TrueType directory if necessary)

cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
/usr/sbin/ttmkfdir >fonts.scale
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir

Then add the fontpath to XF86Config or XF86Config-4.

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"

Restart X and that should be it.