fonts...

[Ron]

You and Mark have been a great help.  I installed a bunch more fonts and my 
wife is quite pleased.  Thanks for all the help.

Ron

On Saturday 24 June 2006 11:23 pm, Jacob Rideout wrote:
> open synaptic or adept and search for ttf, you'll find many fonts in
> the repos to install, it should cover most your needs. Also any of the
> many free sites on the net that offer fonts  are installable in
> kubuntu
>
> On 6/24/06, Mark A. Taff <marktaff at comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Saturday 24 June 2006 12:07, Ron wrote:
> > > Thanks for the help Mark, but how do you use the font installer?  I
> > > clicked in administrator mode and put in my password and it shows a few
> > > fonts, but how do I actually install those fonts?  Also, is there a
> > > place on the web or, better yet, in the repositories to download more
> > > fonts?  Like the fonts that I get in windows?  Sorry for all the
> > > questions.  I want to make my wife happy or she will make me go back to
> > > windows, but I want to gradually move away from windows and, hopefully,
> > > one day uninstall it altogether. However, if I can't get my wife, who
> > > is really computer illiterate, to learn to like and use Linux, I won't
> > > ever be able to do that :(
> >
> > I'm sure most/many of the F/OSS fonts are already installed.  You could
> > google to find some more.  FYI, there is *no* difference between Windows
> > and Linux True-type fonts.  So one could simply copy the fonts from your
> > favorite MS Windows machine on floppy/zip/cdrom/dvd/flashkey/etc and
> > install them with the font installer previously mentioned.
> >
> > Also, many printers come with a cdrom containing fonts, as do graphics
> > software like corel draw, photoshop, etc.
> >
> > Most of the fonts I use I originally got with a free version of Corel
> > draw that came with an ink-jet printer I bought about 8-9 years ago.
> >
> > HTH, ask more questions if it doesn't.
> >
> > Mark
> >
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