[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing TrueType Fonts

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

> 
> 1.       Copy the ttf files to /usr/share/fonts
> 

Better create a folder inside /usr/share/fonts and store them there.

> 2.       pkg install font-utilities (if not already installed)
> 
> 3.       Run mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts
> 
> 4.       Run mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts
> 

Well I think these commands are not necessary anymore as they were
some sort of "support" files in order for X to be able to use them.
For example there are no files fonts.dir and fonts.scale in my
/usr/share/fonts/OpenType yet the fonts are usable. (OK some
old applications like XMMS cannot use these fonts unless these
file will not be there and I am not so sure whether this will
make them usable.)


> 5.       Run fc-cache /usr/share/fonts
> 


A.S.


 
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Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece