Linux Fonts |
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Linux comes with lots of its own fonts, which are good. Also, the MS fonts are available to you (you have paid for them after all). To get the Linux fonts, you should make sure that the following packages are installed:
xfonts-100dpi
xfonts-100dpi-transcoded
xfonts-75dpi
xfonts-75dpi-transcoded
xfonts-base
xfonts-scalable
gsfonts
gsfonts-X11
Also, installing dfontmgr
is a good idea. This allows you to
see which X fonts you have installed.
The Microsoft fonts are 'TrueType'. The easiest way of installing these
is by installing the ttf_commercial
package. During the
configuration, this package scans the hard disk for MS fonts. It managed
to correctly find mine under /xpsystem
. I asked it not to insert
the xtt
module, but I did copy the fonts to the Linux partition.
To use the fonts, you will need to make a change the font server's
configuration file. The file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config
should have the catalogue
updated to include:
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
.