Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

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On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:31 PM, NRL <NRLacasse@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This is more than likely a dumb question but I have to ask. I just moved
> from Windows to Fedora a few months ago so I'm a newbie here. My stupid
> question is this, can I use Windows TTF fonts in Fedora? I have  about 7,000
> fonts to choose from on a DVD. Can I just drag and drop a font into a font
> folder like in Windows?
>
> If I can't us them I will install the MS Core fonts this way.

I would recommend installing the MS Core fonts anyway if you tend to
use them a lot but that's only a few fonts, no where near 7000.
Additionally I'm not sure you'd want to install all 7000, that could
slow things down a bit.

I found a howto here:

http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/howto/fontlinux.html

I would recommend creating a path somewhere similar such as
/usr/share/fonts/myfonts, copy just the fonts you use in there and
follow the howto other than for  #7 I would restart the font server
properly:

service xfs restart

or

systemctl restart xfs.service

depending on what version of Fedora you use...

Richard
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