Installing fonts on F8?

[IBBoard]

I'm sure it can't be that complex, but I'm currently trying to work out how to install fonts on Fedora system-wide!

I've recently ditched Windows from my machine's dual-boot (although I've still got it running in VirtualBox for the times I do System.Windows.Forms interfaces for my apps) but before I did then I rescued some fonts (mainly Games Workshop related fan fonts).

Unfortunately most of the "how to" articles either use chkfontpath (which isn't installed by default and needs XFS installing, so obviously isn't the right way for a default F8 install) or they're "how to install the MS fonts by downloading the core font package". I've even tried the Unofficial FAQ answer of dragging and dropping them to Fonts but it says System > Prefs > Fonts where as all F8 has is a Fonts tab under Appearance, so it doesn't work.

I've finally managed to make them show up for my profile by symlinking the font folder as .fonts, but that's not exactly what I wanted.

[ibboard@AnkhMorpork ~]$ ll /usr/local/fonts/ttf/
total 2060
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  24412 2005-04-01 00:57 angerth.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 352224 2004-07-17 20:39 arialbd.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 226748 2001-08-23 13:00 arialbi.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 207808 2001-08-23 13:00 ariali.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 367112 2004-07-17 20:39 arial.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117028 2001-08-23 13:00 ariblk.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  35708 1995-04-26 10:51 chsr____.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  37800 1999-07-18 22:14 civic.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  14048 2004-03-24 03:52 dinsrg__.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  26196 1995-04-25 09:31 elr_____.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7526 2008-02-14 20:22 fonts.dir
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7526 2008-02-14 20:22 fonts.scale
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 310152 2003-04-19 19:46 icsc01tt.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  26152 2003-10-02 20:39 magicgw.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  32220 1995-04-26 10:37 MARINES__1.TTF
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  32220 1995-04-26 10:37 marines_.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  21056 1995-04-25 09:19 orky-1__.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  39244 2002-02-05 16:15 skavig__.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  13888 2001-10-08 16:14 Tau_____.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  27552 2002-04-04 11:33 visitor1.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  37388 2002-04-04 11:32 visitor2.ttf
[ibboard@AnkhMorpork ~]$ ll -d /usr/local/fonts/ttf/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-12 19:27 /usr/local/fonts/ttf/
[ibboard@AnkhMorpork ~]$ ll /etc/X11/fontpath.d/
total 44
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2007-11-16 19:39 baekmuk-ttf-fonts-gulim -> ../../../usr/share/fonts/baekmuk-ttf-gulim
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2007-11-16 19:39 cjkunifonts-uming -> /usr/share/fonts/cjkunifonts-uming
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 2007-11-16 19:40 default-ghostscript -> /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2008-02-02 08:51 fonts-default -> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2008-01-25 18:48 liberation-fonts -> /usr/share/fonts/liberation
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 2007-11-16 19:38 sazanami-fonts-gothic -> /usr/share/fonts/sazanami-fonts-gothic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2008-02-12 19:29 windows-ttf -> /usr/local/fonts/ttf/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 2007-11-16 19:43 xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi:unscaled:pri=30 -> /usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2007-11-16 19:43 xorg-x11-fonts-misc:unscaled:pri=10 -> /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2007-11-16 19:43 xorg-x11-fonts-TTF -> /usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2007-11-16 19:43 xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 -> /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1

I know there's also /etc/fonts with various config files, but I've yet to work out how to create a config.

So, how do you install fonts system-wide on F8?

[clay247]

Did you use yum to install the font packages? If you want to get crazy do something like this

$>yum -y install *font*

I'm not responsible for what happens here

[Dangermouse]

Hi if you are refering to windows fonts the look here
http://dnmouse.webs.com/windowsfonts.htm
you can also install other fonts from add and remove software

[IBBoard]

clay: As I said at the end of the second paragraph, these are fonts I've downloaded in Windows (TTF fonts) that I want to use in Linux, so installing RPMs won't help.

Dangermouse: No, I mentioned in the third paragraph that all I could find were chkfontpath or "install MS font" tutorials. The first isn't applicable to F8 as it requires XFS and if I have to install the XFS package to get chkfontpath then there's obviously some other way to do it. The second isn't applicable because 1) I've already got the fonts (and I don't want them all including Wingdings or whatever) and 2) I've mainly got other TTF fonts outside the core MS set.

[Dangermouse]

Okay if i understand you right what you are saying is you have your own set of fonts that you used in widows and want to install them in fedora, if so this package may help you, i have never used it but i believe it is for making and installing your own fonts, but dont hold me to it.

su
yum -y install fontforge

[clay247]

Interesting. I have just dumped random fonts into my font dir before. Good luck. RH has released some really nice fonts lately, do you really need your windows fonts?

[IBBoard]

Dangermouse: I looked at that when I searched "font" in Smart, but the description sounded like it might be more of a font editor than a font installer.

clay: I've got them working by dumping them in my .fonts, but that only works for me.

*tries symlink in /usr/share/fonts*

Ahah, that works. Quite why there is the /etc/X11/fontpath.d and /etc/fonts I don't know. That could seriously be a hell of a lot more obvious and less duplicated!

Also, I do need my Windows fonts. If you look at my list of fonts then the only core Windows font I have there are the versions of Arial. All of the others are custom symbol fonts or writing that is very similar (if not identical) to fonts that Games Workshop use.

[Abbath]

Does anyone of you know how to put microsoft fonts for fedora 9?
I've stopped at

sudo yum install chkfontpath

'cause is not in rawhide and in livna repositories i've added (only developement).

I've tried installing msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm from terminal, but appears a window in which is written "chkfontpath needed" or something like that.

Thank you people

[Seve]

Hello:

Try
su -
rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm

Seve

[Abbath]

I've tried and this are the results :

[root@localhost RPMS]# cd noarch/
[root@localhost noarch]# ls
msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm
[root@localhost noarch]# rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm
Preparazione in corso... ########################################### [100%]
1:msttcorefonts ########################################### [100%]
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.58856: line 3: /usr/sbin/chkfontpath: No such file or directory
[root@localhost noarch]#

nothing... chkfontpath needed don't know how to install that
tnx!

[IBBoard]

Have you tried grabbing an F8 chkfontpath RPM from the mirrors? It should be fairly simple and not have too many dependencies so it might work.

[Abbath]

Yeah, I solved. Don't know really why, but after the nstallation of msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm , i exectuted:

rpm -ivh --nodeps msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm
(probably no need to reload dependencies like chkfontpath)

rpm -q msttcorefonts

Now I have mstt corefonts on Openoffice 2.4 and Fedora 9 :P

[mwette]

found ithere but I don't know if I want to install it

[IBBoard]

atrpms are one of the main alternate/additional repos, so it should be safe. It should be safer than downloading it from a random website anyway.

[arshad3m]

i have some tamil fonts, which i used in windows. how to install them to my system?? (f9)

thanks in advance