Hello,

I know it is not really an original question but: where can I get fonts to
download (and let them work on my slack)? I would need cyrillic, greek,
persian (arabic) and greek fonts.
Can someone tell me where I could find an howto about installing those
fonts?

thanks,

thib

Thibaud de Borggraef wrote:

> I know it is not really an original question but: where can I get fonts to
> download (and let them work on my slack)? I would need cyrillic, greek,
> persian (arabic) and greek fonts.
> Can someone tell me where I could find an howto about installing those
> fonts?

I don't know where to get these fonts. But if you happen to use KDE 3.2,
there's a font installer included in KControl that works very well.
Otherwise, you have to do it the hard way.

Niki Kovacs

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:07:08 +0200, Kiki Novak wrote:

> Thibaud de Borggraef wrote:
>
>> I know it is not really an original question but: where can I get fonts to
>> download (and let them work on my slack)? I would need cyrillic, greek,
>> persian (arabic) and greek fonts.
>> Can someone tell me where I could find an howto about installing those
>> fonts?
>
> I don't know where to get these fonts. But if you happen to use KDE 3.2,
> there's a font installer included in KControl that works very well.
> Otherwise, you have to do it the hard way.
>
> Niki Kovacs
The problem is I am using Gnome...

Thibaud de Borggraef wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I know it is not really an original question but: where can I get fonts to
>download (and let them work on my slack)? I would need cyrillic, greek,
>persian (arabic) and greek fonts.
>Can someone tell me where I could find an howto about installing those
>fonts?
>
>thanks,
>
>thib
>
>
If you have a Windows license; e.g., WIN98, etc., you can copy the TTF
fonts (from the fonts directory in the windows directory, the .ttf
files) into /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/TTF -- that will give you quite a few.

There should be a bunch of fonts in /usr/lib/X11R6/fonts/cyrillic
already (if I remember correctly).

If you get hold of a bunch of PostScript fonts, you'll need to get
type1inst-0.6.1 from any number of places (Google is your friend) and
install it. You have a bunch of PostScript fonts already, they're in
/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts (you want the .afm files).

If you want to install them so X can use them, you need to copy the .afm
files (AFM is Adobe Font Metric) to /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/Type1 and
execute type1inst in that directory (you only use type1inst with
PostScript Type 1 fonts and you only do it once).

To make them available to X (and other things), get into /etc/X11 and
edit the xorg.conf file so it looks something like this (xf86config is a
little different, find the same area and add whatever you've added in
/usr/X11R6/lib/fonts):

# This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
Load "Adobe"
Load "local"
Load "misc"
Load "myfonts"
Load "Type1"
Load "speedo"
Load "TTF"
Load "freetype"
Load "xtt"

you may want to add "load "cyrillic"" there, and further down:

# The module search path. The default path is shown here.

ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Adobe"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/myfonts"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"

Note that you may or may not have some of those listed above (I have the
Adobe Type Library, you won't have that) and if you're still using
xf86config, look for similar stuff in that file in /etc/X11, but that's
pretty much how to make them available to X; KDE picks up that they're
there when the above is done.

You do need to reboot to get all these to load (sorry, but it seems to
work that way) then you'll have those fonts available to OpenOffice,
KDE, Acrobat, and whatever else you've installed.

Other folk may give you a better way, but this is what I do and it works
fine for me -- YMMV.

As to where to find other fonts, well, again, Google is your friend --
look for PostScript fonts if you can.

Hope this helps some.

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 21:24:02 GMT, thibaud.deborggraef@pandora.be wrote:

[...]
> The problem is I am using Gnome...

No problem at all. Try this link:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...ilfo.dig. lan


Hope this helps,

--
DIG (Dmitri I GOULIAEV)
Aahz's law: The best way to get information on usenet is
not to ask a question, but to post the wrong information.

On 2004-09-26, Thomas Ronayne <trona@REMOVETHISameritech.net> wrote:

>>I know it is not really an original question but: where can I get fonts to
>>download (and let them work on my slack)? I would need cyrillic, greek,
>>persian (arabic) and greek fonts.

> To make them available to X (and other things), get into /etc/X11 and
> edit the xorg.conf file so it looks something like this (xf86config is a
> little different, find the same area and add whatever you've added in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts)

> You do need to reboot to get all these to load (sorry, but it seems to
> work that way) then you'll have those fonts available to OpenOffice,
> KDE, Acrobat, and whatever else you've installed.

It's been awhile since I installed fonts, but I don't think it's this
complex. If I remeber correctly, fonts go in one of the font dirs you
have already. You use "mkfontdir" program (check out the man page for
it) to make the available and rebuild their cache. After that, you
should be able to see all of the fonts with 'xlsfonts'.

I installed some fonts called sabvga, nexus, and vga11x19. These are in
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc, which seemed like a good place to put them.
The files are like 'xxxx.pcf.gz'. For example, 'sabvga.pcf.gz' is just
the gzip'ed file of 'sabvga.pcf'. After that, you can use'em like:
rxvt -fn sabvga . The files 'fonts.alias, fonts.cache-1, fonts.dir,
fonts.scale' are special, and contain info on/about the fonts needed
to use them. I belive 'mkfontdir' maintains these.

Unless I've omitted something important or forgot a step, there
shouldn't be much more to it than this. I've never had to re-edit any
X config file. (I do run XFree86, and not X.org, but I don't think
they are different in this respect.) The line:

FontPath /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc

is already in there. If you add a whole new directory, not already
listed, then you probably need to add the line to your config file.
To find font files, I'd try Google for 'greek X11 fonts' for maybe
even 'arabic.pcf' or something similar.
Scalable fonts are similar to install, but you run 'mkfontscale' to
make a file 'fonts.scale', then 'mkfontdir' to update the regular
'fonts.dir' file.


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I use slackware current and Gnome so I have X.org 6.8.1
I have solved your problem in the following way:
from the site www.debian.org ( I know, it is not an elegant way to do
things, but I'm a practical man and I've spent too much time without
finding anything...) I have downloaded many ttf font binary
packages:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-*
then I have converted these packages in .tgz ones using the program
alien:
http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/
Finally I'have extracted and copied all *.ttf or *.otf in a directory
created in
/usr/share/fonts
Make sure to add
load "freetype"
to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Check new fonts in Mozilla or
Applications->Accessoires->Character Map
I hope it will be useful
Regards

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