Install Fonts

[Michael T. Richter]

On Sun, 2007-15-04 at 00:51 -0400, Seth Hasani wrote:

> You missed one vital step. Forgot to tell fontconfig about your new
> font directory:



> Edit the file /etc/fonts/fonts.conf (all users) or ~/.fonts.conf (your
> account only) and insert the line:



>      <dir>/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-microsoft</dir>



> Make sure that line is somewhere in between the opening <fontconfig>
> and closing </fontconfig> tags in that file.


I've never had to edit fonts.conf (didn't even know it existed!) and
I've installed literally thousands of fonts.  All I ever did was ran
fc-cache -v -f and let it find everything.  It had no problems when I
added fonts in new directories, moved fonts around between directories,
etc.

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