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Offline kagashe

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[SOLVED] How to add fonts?
« on: December 12, 2008, 05:17:55 AM »
I am from India and need to add ttf-indic fonts to read Indian languages sites properly. Till Firefox 2.0 I was required to use the Firefox built with pango enabled (which only Ubuntu was doing) option. With arrival of Firefox 3 the need to use pango enabled build is not required and I can use Firefox 3 on any Linux distribution provided I added the fonts.

I already have the fonts and on distributions like Puppy I create a .fonts directory and copy the fonts folder in .fonts.

I did the same thing on Tinycorelinux and it works.

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Offline mikshaw

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Re: [SOLVED] How to add fonts?
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2008, 04:17:24 PM »
That's very nice isn't it?
As far as I know, this is limited to Gtk (maybe even limited to Gtk2).  Those ttf fonts won't work in console, apps based solely on Xlib, and possibly the FLTK apps (depending on how FLTK was built for TC).

But it's reeeealy convenient to just pop fonts into a directory and have them automatically  available =o)
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Offline curaga

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Re: [SOLVED] How to add fonts?
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2008, 04:17:50 AM »
Don't forget QT apps such as Opera ;)
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Re: [SOLVED] How to add fonts?
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2008, 04:40:11 AM »
Quote from: mikshaw on December 12, 2008, 04:17:24 PM
That's very nice isn't it?
As far as I know, this is limited to Gtk (maybe even limited to Gtk2).  Those ttf fonts won't work in console, apps based solely on Xlib, and possibly the FLTK apps (depending on how FLTK was built for TC).

But it's reeeealy convenient to just pop fonts into a directory and have them automatically  available =o)
They are Indian Languages fonts and mainly required to read our websites. The fonts are also available on Leafpad to write. I have already added the Keyboad Layout Indicator/Switcher, for me it is complete system meeting my requirement.

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Offline Jason W

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Re: [SOLVED] How to add fonts?
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2008, 07:03:53 AM »
One tip on fonts.  There are three automatically recognized font directories in TC: /usr/share/fonts , /usr/local/share/fonts, and ~/.fonts.  Install fonts into any one of there font directories and they will be recognized by fc-cache.  Font extensions should preferably be installed into /usr/local/share/fonts.
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Re: [SOLVED] How to add fonts?
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2009, 10:15:07 AM »
Quote from: Jason W on December 13, 2008, 07:03:53 AM
Install fonts into any one of there font directories and they will be recognized by fc-cache. 
Which package should I install to do fc-cache? TCL is too compact to exec a familiar command... :'(
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Re: [SOLVED] How to add fonts?
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2009, 11:34:09 AM »
It's in the fontconfig extension, just like it's in the fontconfig package upstream :)
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Re: [SOLVED] How to add fonts?
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2009, 11:29:42 PM »
Quote from: curaga on March 31, 2009, 11:34:09 AM
It's in the fontconfig extension, just like it's in the fontconfig package upstream :)

Thank you curaga-san.
I now can read japanese in opera on tc. :)
Double byte characters are an essential key and a barrier for japanese. Sigh.
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