[ubuntu-in] Font Issue (Ram)

[Ritesh Sinha]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Ninad Pundalik <ninadsp16289 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Ram,
>
> > Have been doing the following to add ttf fonts to my Ubuntu system
> >
> > 1. Copy fonts to /usr/share/fonts (in sudo mode)
> > 2. run sudo fc-cache -fsv
>
> Did you try copying the fonts to ~/.fonts?  That is the users personal
> Fonts directory.  You'll have to run fc-cache after copying the fonts,
> and restart any programs you are using, for them to see the fonts, as
> you've been doing.
>
> Btw, there's a simpler way to access these locations, if you have
> Konqueror installed (the KDE File Manager). Just enter 'fonts:///' in
> the location bar, and you'll get the right folders. :)
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If you do a lot of font related work, you might want to check out a
dedicated TTF font manager like fonty python
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython

It is also available in the standard ubuntu repository.
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