how can i add fonts to slitaz? what font files are valid?

i copied a few font files into /usr/share/fonts but it didn't seem to work. i don't want the entire \windows\fonts folder, just a few common web fonts.

Well, look at the slitaz manual in "X Window System" section.
There you'll find what you are looking for...

Rodrigo

Abiword sees /usr/share/fonts/newfolder/newfont.ttf

Other programs or font types might not work.

so new fonts has to be in its own folder? sorry, i have yet to run fd-cache.

I did not try without a new folder so I only know that a new folder worked.

Abiword listed ttf, fon, and pcf but only rendered ttf correctly.

I did not run fd-cache. I used pcman and paste.

You might be able to paste a font into an existing folder.

I made a ~/.fonts folder then copied over verdana.ttf, tahoma.ttf, arial.ttf to that folder

I think I then cd'ed into that folder and # fc-cache

Thats all - I think its like this in the handbook

Anyway, it worked fine :)

Will the cache command make fon and pcf work in abiword?

Thank you.

Just figured out how to add some microsoft fonts to Slitaz, might be useful to others.

Use the package manager to install cabextract (as root).
tazpkg get-install cabextract

create a directory ~/.fonts/truetype

Go to http://www.sharpfonts.com/, click download, then download all the fonts(.exe) on the page, if you agree to the license agreement of course.

Extract the fonts from the exe using cabextract

cabextract -d ./ andale32.exe arial32.exe arialb32.exe comic32.exe courie32.exe georgi32.exe impact32.exe tahoma32.exe times32.exe trebuc32.exe verdan32.exe webdin32.exe


Move all the .ttf files into ~/.fonts/truetype

run
fc-cache

Your shiny new fonts courtesy of microsoft should now work!

Hi Guys,

i tried everything proposed in this thread. Unfortunatly i don't see any of the new fonts in openoffice writer (the one which is in the slitaz repos)

I loose my mind on this....

Any help?
Thankx
Cyberbree

I don't now what happend. But it seems that copy the windows fonts from the windows fonts dir does not work. Just putting the sharpfonts in the /usr/share/fonts directory works fine. Without fc-cache....Times New Roman and Arial are sufficiant for daily work.