Re: TrueType fonts (and Linux)

From: Mark Gilbert (webmaster@dofty.zzn.com)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 07:23:31 EDT

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    On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 20:27, Mark Gilbert wrote:

    I think you might be looking for this:
    http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/LinFaqTrueTypeFontsOnLinux

    -MG

    On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 19:12, Bernard Lambey wrote:
    > Hi,
    > I use the Windows-TTF fonts wit my AbiWord-1.0.2.
    > Recently I have completed that fonts group, always on the
    > Microsot site, by a little number of fonts (because it's the only
    > free thing.
    > Well! But how do I, to add these fonts at the group placed in
    > the /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts ???
    > Thanks
    > Bernard L.
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    On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 06:30, andy_man@popmail.com wrote:
    > There's one thing I don't understand about using TrueType fonts in AbiWord.
    > Isn't it possible to use both postscript fonts and TrueType at the same time?
    > I'd like to keep the standard fonts, because I don't
    > have TTF's for Arial, Times etc.
    > But I would also want to be able to use some additional TrueType fonts.
    > When I run the ttmkfdir command, the fonts.scale is changed to contain
    > only the additional TrueType fonts, but the standard fonts goes away.
    > So the question is, again:
    > Isn't it possible to use both postscript fonts and TrueType at the same time?
    >
    >
    > Cheers, Andy
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