Using Gnome in Ubuntu 5.04, trying to get fonts configured. I let the installer do the default installation of Ubuntu, but it installed a lot of fonts that I have no use for. Removing them sort of works if I do sudo nautilus fonts:/// (got that from the Ubuntu documentation website). However, when I select a font and delete it, it still appears in the list, even after I reload the Nautilus window. But if I select it again and try Properties, it says it can't display the properties. Maybe it's really gone, but Nautilus has a display bug? On the other hand, they still show up in a new Writer document font list too. Moreover, some fonts are not appearing in fonts:///. Either that, or the font viewer is lying about what they really are. For example, if I launch OpenOffice.org Writer I find a bunch of fonts for Chinese, Japanese and Korean. But none of those appear in fonts:///. I don't speak any of those languages, so I certainly didn't install them. I don't know where they came from. Moreover, if I type some text in a Writer document and apply one of these Asian language fonts to it, the text appearance does not change. It should change to junk or something. I am a student of linguistics, so I need IPA fonts (International Phonetic Alphabet). I installed Doulos from University College, London (http:/www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/fonts.htm). At first I just put them in the TrueType folder, but they did not appear anywhere. So then I moved them to the OpenOffice folder. That seems to have worked -- at least they are now visible in a Writer document (after closing and reopening a new document). Except that the display in the Writer document is of a badly draw sans font, not Doulos. The font metrics are all wrong and the outlines are not displaying properly. I think Writer is substituting some generic display because it doesn't know what else to do with it. I also opened a root terminal window and did defoma-font reregister- all (another thing I got from the Ubuntu documentation page). It did several lines of unregister, register, and purge stuff. But it didn't resolve any of the above problems. I also have some expensive Adobe OpenType Pro fonts that I want to install. They are on my Windows 2000 computer and the Adobe license lets me use them on two computers, so I want them on the Linux laptop as well. Haven't tried to install them yet. Any suggestions welcome. Documentation on installing fonts has me totally confused because everyone says something different. I note that KDE has a font installer utility. Perhaps that would help. Does Gnome have something like that? Thanks in advance for any pointers and suggestions. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
