Installing New Type 1 Font

[Don Parris]

Thanks!  I'll try that soon as I get a chance.  I saw info on installing
TTFs, but didn't see much that made sense regarding Type 1 fonts.  SUSE/KDE
provides a nice font installer package, so part of the issue is that I just
never bothered with fonts under Ubuntu.

I'll let you know how it goes when I get to it.

Don

On 10/19/06, NoOp <glgxg at mfire.com> wrote:
>
> Don Parris wrote:
> > I haven't found anything particularly useful on this, so I'm posing the
> > question here.  Can I just copy a Type 1 font into the fonts directory
> and
> > expect it to work?  Or do I need to use some special tool to add the new
> > font into the directory and/or configure the new font?
> >
> > I'm running Dapper.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Don
> >
> >
>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/utils/type1inst
> make sure that you have the universe repository enabled
>
> $ sudo apt-get install type1inst
>
> After type1inst installs, go to the directory where you put your type1
> fonts and
>
> $ sudo type1inst
>
> That will create the "fonts.scale" file.
>
> Note: I put mine in /usr/share/fonts/type1 - makes it easy to remember
> and find for future reference. You can also install the font viewer to
> easily look at any of your fonts:
>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/gnome/gfontview
>
> $ sudo apt-get install gfontview
>
> For future reference, if you want to check to see if there is a package
> for something you need, simply do a search via:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/
> so in this case you'd have gone to that URL, entered type1 in the search
> package Keyword box, entered dapper in the Distribution box and clicked
> the Search button.
>
>
>
>
>
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