Adding TrueType fonts in RedHat 8.0

[hkctr]

There exists an excellent how-to on this subject. It works and is easy enough for anyone to understand.

http://www.halley.cc/ed/linux/howto/fonts.html

[darren7659]

Bhangra on ucol wrote this a short while ago:
Create a folder in your home directory and call it .fonts
Remember the preceding '.'
Copy all your true-type fonts into the directory.
Voila, system-wide recognition of your tt fonts

[timmah]

How close is this to what you'd have to do in MDK 9.0?

[oghanchi]

I copied the fonts under the following directory in Mandrake 9.0:

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/

And that was it. It took me a while to get everything adjusted though, but it works now. The main reason I did it was to be able to read Arabic in Linux.

But the fonts work a lot better in RH8, they don't look as crude as in MDL9, even though I have anti aliasing on.

I didn't have to do any adjusting in RH though.

Hope this helps. :)

[bootdoc]

what is the benefit of adding true type fonts to RH 8.

[oghanchi]

The main reason for it was to be able to read Arabic in Konqueror. Now the only reason I have to boot into Windows is to be able to use MSN Messenger (for video conference with my family half way around the world!). Other than that, I can do everything in Linux. :) :D

[JediSthlm]

One thing, I´ve added a bunch of fonts, including Verdana, how do get Opera to understand that I got Verdana installed? Now when surfing the web I always get Arial. The problem is that most sites use Verdana and it looks better. Anyone knows?

JediSthlm