Is There A Font Installer For Ubuntu?

[Michael Lee]

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 08:19 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 4/22/09, Graham Todd <grahamtodd2 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Graham Todd <grahamtodd2 at googlemail.com>
> > Subject: Is There A Font Installer For Ubuntu?
> > To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 6:28 AM
> > I can't find a GUI font installer/viewer for ttf fonts
> > in Ubuntu.  I
> > have tried searching Synaptic and it has come up with one
> > or two hits,
> > one of them being "ttf-root-installer".  I
> > installed that but issuing
> > the command does not run it, nor can using the locate
> > command find it.
> > 
> > I really want something like the KDE 3.5.9 font installer
> > which would
> > allow you to check what is printed but graphically, and
> > before I turn
> > to KDE tools again, something purely for Gnome.
> > 
> > Can anybody help me?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance....
> > 
> > 
> Graham, you might want to check the output of:
> aptitude show ttf-root-installer
> as it give a clue of what the executable is and other info.  Always good to use the show command to get info on the package.  Apt-cache show even gives more detail than aptitude.  HTH.
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> 
> 
You can try FontMatrix. I'm not sure if it will install fonts (I always
just copy them into the .fonts folder) but you can view the fonts
installed, or in whatever folder you select. Hope that helps.

Mike