Installing and Uninstalling TTF Fonts

[Alan Mckinnon]

On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 09:01 -0400, 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.

Nope, it really is just as simple as putting fonts in a font directory.
You have been reading howtos on X font serving and Xft, with all the
attendant nonsense of strange files in each dir and indexing commands
that have to be run.... These days we use fontconfig which automagically
finds, uses and makes available every font in a specified dir and
sub-dirs - usually /usr/share/fonts

OOo gets configured through it's own interface, it does it's own font
serving independant of X (it has to be multi-platform). Just follow the
dialogs

> 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.

Remove the packages that installed the fonts you don't want. Then copy
the Windows fonts over to a dir in /usr/share/fonts somewhere

> Has anyone recorded step-by-step instructions for installing and 
> uninstalling TTF (and TTC) fonts? 

Read para 1 above. It's all you need.

alan