Fonts in Fedora (the complete story)

[Edward Lichtner]

Hi all,
I posted a couple of days ago asking for clues on how to add fonts to the system. After playing around, here's what I ended up with.
The are two locations where fonts can be added. To add fonts locally, accessible to the current user only, add the font files to the /home/your_name/.fonts directory.
To add systemwide fonts, accessible to all users, add the font files to the /usr/local/share/fonts directory tree, in the OTF, TTF or Type1 directories, according to the type of fonts you are adding. Fonts are accessible immediately, there is no need to restart X or to update a config file.
Also know that subfolders are acceptable inside these directories and that fonts may be moved around (e.g. TrueType fonts in the OTF directory, OpenTypefonts in the Type1 directory, etc.).
It's as simple as that.
Edward

BTW, if you like Mac fonts, many of the OpenType, TrueType and Type 1 fonts found on OS X can be converted with a Darwin tool called fondu, and transferred successfully on Fedora (x86).

[cardinal II]

Handy! Thanks

[Willem Jacobuss]

In my installation /usr/local/share/fonts is an empty directory

my fonts are living in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts

there are some in /usr/share/fonts too

The answer to all this seems to be in /etc/fonts/local.conf:
<dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>

Seems that any of these directories will do the trick!!

Strange enough these are the fontpaths mentioned in /etc/fonts/fonts.config!
<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF</dir>

as u can see these mention specific subdirectories of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts

Needless to say i am still confused!!! Can anybody explain if there is any need to specifically mention the subdirectories?? Or will listing the parent directory suffice?

and I believe the fontpath needs to be set correctly in /etc/X11/fs/config
(have since found that this is part of the old fontserver system which is being phased out.)