InstallFonts

Installation of fonts on Windows and Linux

Windows:

From the Control Panel, double-click the Fonts folder. Then choose Install Font from the File menu. Alternatively, drag your .ttf files to the Windows Font folder. Windows 2000 - C:\winnt\fonts Windows XP - C:\WINDOWS\Fonts

Linux:

If your distribution provides a font utility, this may be used to install fonts. Otherwise create a directory to hold your truetype fonts, e.g. /usr/local/fonts/ttf Then copy all the truetype fonts (*.ttf) that you need into this directory.

Run the following commands in sequence

cd /usr/local/fonts/ttf ttmkfdir > fonts.scale mkfontdir

With chkfontpath run the following: chkfontpath -a /usr/local/fonts/ttf

Without chkfontpath edit the file /etc/X11/xfs/config (or /etc/X11/fs/config), find the line which starts with "catalog=", and add your directory at the end of the list, separated by a comma.

Rebooting is the easiest way to make sure everything is applied.

If you add more fonts to the directory, re-run the following commands to regenerate the fonts.dir file:

ttmkfdir > fonts.scale mkfontdir

-- StephenWebster - 10 Dec 2007