OOFonts

[Brian Kelsay]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>Ok, found my own solution, and before my own post showed up here.
>
>There's this OO utility called "spadmin" that is run as root.  It's mostly for 
>adding printers, but it's also for adding fonts.
>
>Using DrakFont (NOT ready for real use) to display the font directories (under 
>"remove fonts", doesn't make sense but...), I manually installed the fonts in 
>each directory to OO.  Now I actually have an Arial font.  How it managed to 
>grab "Scarab" instead I'm not going to worry about.
>
>You'd think something could tell OO "look at the X Font List".
>
If you run a Debian-based distro you can apt-get install msttfonts.  For 
other distros, go to msttfonts.sf.net, they have RPMs there and source.  
The installer script grabs the free fonts from MS web servers.

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