[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing TrueType Fonts

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 08/ 6/12 02:56 PM, Mark Creamer wrote:
> I managed to figure this out once in the past, but unfortunately did not
> make my usual copious notes and now I can't seem to get it to work on a new
> server. The issue is that I want to install true-type fonts, as available
> from the links on this page  http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/  so my
> Jasper reporting application that's running on OI 151_a4 can use them.
> 
> I was able to download the webfonts.tar.gz package, un-tar/gunzip it, which
> leaves me with a group of Microsoft executables, one for each font. I then
> used cabextract running on a Linux box to extract all the TTFs from the
> Microsoft exe. I then copied the fonts into /etc/fonts on the OI box, and
> ran fc-cache /etc/fonts. That finishes without giving me an error, but the
> developer of the report tells me the font is still not working.

/etc/fonts is for configuration files.   The actual fonts should be under a
directory like /usr/share/fonts that is listed in one of the configuration
files font path entries.

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