<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/20 komputes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:komputes@gmail.com">komputes@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">Gérard BIGOT wrote:<br>
> 2009/8/19 Pastor JW <<a href="mailto:pastor_jw@the-inner-circle.org">pastor_jw@the-inner-circle.org</a>><br>
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>> On Tuesday 18 August 2009 10:25:27 pm dwain wrote:<br>
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>>> i have been reading the linux bible 2008 and have learned much about<br>
>>> running linux. more than i have learned before. i would like to install<br>
>>> some additional fonts, but i haven't found a way to do this in the gnome<br>
>>> desktop. while trying to configure a network printer i found a tab to<br>
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>> add<br>
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>>> additional fonts, but i would like to install them system wide. would<br>
>>> someone please point me in the direction to accomplish this task?<br>
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>> In Kubuntu, which is what I use and much prefer, going to System Settings,<br>
>> Appearance, you will find the Font Installer and other font tools. In<br>
>> Ubuntu<br>
>> however, people tell me this tool function is missing, ...a Gnome thing I<br>
>> guess. You can however, install fonts from synaptic package manager if you<br>
>> find the ones you want available there. Or add "Font Forge" to handle true<br>
>> type fonts.<br>
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> put whatever font you want to add to ~/.fonts/ and reboot. There's a magic<br>
> line to invoke at the prompt level, so as not have to reboot, but I can't<br>
> remember (fccache something?).<br>
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</div></div>The command to update the font cache w/o rebooting is:<br>
$ sudo fc-cache -f<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks. </div><div><br></div><div>G. </div></div>