Comments on: lovely linux fonts

By: Deane

Deane — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:34:45 +0000

Great Site! Thanks a bunch – I do a fair amount of web design and this is one of the best + cleanest layouts I’ve seen – way to go man.

By: dan

dan — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:15:13 +0000

Abujo: On Red Hat 9 true type fonts are already installed and available for applications.

By: abujo

abujo — Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:20:59 +0000

This is more a question than a comment.
I am a linux illiterate, and I have installed REDHAT 9, How do I install Fonts do I follow the instructions by dan on April 20, 2003 @ 12:11 AM for REDHAT 7.3 or have things changed.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:12:48 +0000

I love lovely fonts, and this is quite possibly the best web site i have ever been on!

By: Levi

Levi — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 18:35:52 +0000

Or, if you run Debian unstable, you can:

apt-get install ttf-bitstream-vera

And, while you’re at it:

apt-get install msttcorefonts

This plus the TrueType rendering in Mozilla makes for a much more pleasant web browsing experience in Linux. Again, for debian users:

apt-get install mozilla-xft

That’ll turn on antialiased fonts for both mozilla and galeon, and probably any other browser that shares the mozilla browsing component.

By: dan

dan — Sun, 20 Apr 2003 07:11:05 +0000

Sorry about that. It’s what I get for going by memory instead of retesting the instructions.

I meant -C, not -D for tar.
I meant to chmod the contents of the directory to 444, not the directory itself.
I should have had mkfontdir before the chkfontpath command.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Sat, 19 Apr 2003 18:51:52 +0000

I don’t follow your instructions, though I’m using 7.2. For one thing, I know of no ‘-D’ option to tar. Why do you chmod to 755 and then re-chmod it to 444. Also, chkfontpath won’t add the font because there’s no ‘fonts.dir’ file.