Installing and Uninstalling TTF Fonts

[Eberhard Roloff]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:24:39 +0100
Keith Powell <keith at keithg4jvx.force9.co.uk> wrote:

> Nathan Sivin wrote:
> > I was surprised to find nothing about installing
> > and--equally important--uninstalling fonts in previous posts
> > and various manuals, including the _OpenOffice 2.0 Writer
> > Guide._ Some posts about installation in other Linux
> > distributions give the impression that installing is a good
> > bit more complicated than just putting fonts in the font
> > directory.
> >
> > Specifically, I want to get rid of most of the TTF fonts
> > that load automatically when I fire up Writer, since more
> > than half seem to be for Indian and other languages that I
> > don't read. I also want to install the TTF fonts that I use
> > in Windows on the same dual-booting computer--not the "core
> > fonts," but a few less boring ones such as Palatino
> > Linotype, my default serif font, and Simsun, the Unicode
> > font that I use for Chinese and Japanese.
> >
> > Has anyone recorded step-by-step instructions for installing
> > and uninstalling TTF (and TTC) fonts? I notice, by the way,
> > that in Ubuntu a font family is stored in its own folder,
> > but no special procedure is needed to give Writer access to
> > all the individual fonts in the folder.
> >
> > Thanks and cheers,
> >   
> I always uninstall any fonts I don't need with Synaptic. They
> are all listed under "ttf*"
> 
> Don't know if this is the correct way, but it works.
> 
Hi,

This is exactly what I use  to easily install or get rid of
the fonts that came packaged with ubuntu.

Now, in order to very easily install or delete my very own
truetype fonts, mostly the ones I kept from my windows using
years, in KDE, I go to kcontrol/systemadmin/fontinstall (or
similar) and use either my userlogin to install just for me or
use the "root"-button there to install systemwide.

I would hope that there is an equivalent for gnome users, as
well.

regards
Eberhard