[SOLVED] How to install ttf fonts and MS fonts in Fedora 17 Gnome?

[Ariya]

This question must have asked many times before by others. I had tried to understand how they'd done that but failed. so this question.

I have been with Ubuntu and it was so easy to install any font. When using Crunchbang Statler, I copied the fonts to the /usr/share/fonts and they worked.

I did the same thing with Fedora 17. When I have Nautilus open as root and I open the added font in Libre Office Writer, I have all the fonts I pasted in that file, but when I try that not as root, those fonts are not in the LO Writer and I can't open that file normally, it comes in Liberation serif.

How do I install MS fonts and any other ttf fonts? I mean in an easy way.

Thanks

[hadrons123]

try easylife to install msfonts.

[secipolla]

There's also an rpm package at http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...a-f16.html#ttf

[Ariya]

Thank you very much!
Now I have more than enough fonts. I shall be deleting some of them leisurely. I believe I can delete them from /usr/share/fonts just like I did with Ubuntu/Crunchbang.

Have a nice day!

[HolyMurderer]

After installing the fonts, they don't get changed in GNOME, I have to choose them manually.

Which settings do you have on the fonts, on gnome tweak tool?

Thanks

[orbnajes]

Try this instead ...

rpm -i https://downloads.sourceforge.net/pr...2-1.noarch.rpm

This rpm installs the fonts from sourceforge at install time, it does not contain the fonts. In addition, it pulls in updated fonts from the EUupdate font set, and installs the fonts correctly to X core and Xft.

[BenTrein]

Now what if I happen to have a couple of ttf file on my harddrive that I want to install? How do I manually add fonts that are not in the packages mentioned above?

[JiE2009]

Ben, here's what to do:

Step A: install gnome font viewer.

Step B: Open the TTF, and it'll open in Gnome Font Viewer. Then hit Install.

Enjoy!

--J.

[BenTrein]

Thanks - that works. But now step two:

I happen to have nearly 1000 TTFs. Any chance I can do it "en masse"?

[JiE2009]

I'm not sure bro -- my apologies.

I'm very new to Linux and Fedora.

[orbnajes]

there's two font systems in X. "core X fonts" and Xft.

core X fonts

you could put your ttf files in an existing font directory, and rerun mkfontscale, mkfontdir, and fc-cache.

Assuming you put the ttf files in a "new" directory:

FONTDIR=whatever the directory is you put your fonts into
mkfontscale $FONTDIR
mkfontdir $FONTDIR
xset fp+ $FONTDIR
xset fp rehash

add this to your xorg.conf. probably your X is setup so that additions go into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

like this:

cat -> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/some-good-unique-filename-ending-in.conf <<EOT
Section "Files"
FontPath "$FONTDIR"
EndSection
EOT

Xft (the new font system for X):
find the font config file, probably /etc/fonts/font.conf. Either add your $FONTDIR directory to this file, or make sure that it's a subdirectory of one of the directories listed.

run

fc-cache -f -v

let me know what your mileage is.