[gentoo-user] Fonts and KDE SC

[gentoo-user] Fonts and KDE SC

[CJoeB]

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Hi all.

Okay, colour me "so stupid", but I want to add some TrueType fonts to
KDE and I can't figure out how to do it.  In my previous KDE install,
there used to be a menu item for adding fonts.  I *have* googled for
this, but haven't found anything relevant.  Can someone please help?

Regards,

Colleen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and KDE SC

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Saturday 04 June 2011 13:54:27 CJoeB wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> Okay, colour me "so stupid", but I want to add some TrueType fonts to
> KDE and I can't figure out how to do it.  In my previous KDE install,
> there used to be a menu item for adding fonts.  I *have* googled for
> this, but haven't found anything relevant.  Can someone please help?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Colleen


open the system center - or how it is called in english, scroll down and there 
is font installation (or managment or whatever that menu topic is called). 
Click on it and you are only two clicks from installing a font...


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Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and KDE SC

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 19:54 on Saturday 04 June 2011, CJoeB did 
opine thusly:

> Hi all.
> 
> Okay, colour me "so stupid", but I want to add some TrueType fonts to
> KDE and I can't figure out how to do it.  In my previous KDE install,
> there used to be a menu item for adding fonts.  I *have* googled for
> this, but haven't found anything relevant.  Can someone please help?

Many common fonts are available in ebuilds, so you could just emerge that.

Otherwise

System Settings -> System Administration -> Font Installer

to do it manually


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[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts and KDE SC

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 06/04/2011 08:54 PM, CJoeB wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Okay, colour me "so stupid", but I want to add some TrueType fonts to
> KDE and I can't figure out how to do it.  In my previous KDE install,
> there used to be a menu item for adding fonts.  I *have* googled for
> this, but haven't found anything relevant.  Can someone please help?

In System Settings, in the "System Administration" section, there is a 
"Font Installer" icon.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts and KDE SC

[CJoeB]

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On 06/04/11 14:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 06/04/2011 08:54 PM, CJoeB wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> Okay, colour me "so stupid", but I want to add some TrueType fonts to
>> KDE and I can't figure out how to do it.  In my previous KDE install,
>> there used to be a menu item for adding fonts.  I *have* googled for
>> this, but haven't found anything relevant.  Can someone please help?
>
> In System Settings, in the "System Administration" section, there is a
> "Font Installer" icon.

Okay, I AM stupid - not normally, but in this instance ..... YES!  Would
you believe that I looked in "System Settings", but just did scroll down
far enough to see the "System Administration" section.

Thanks, guys, for your patience and not coming right out and calling me
an idiot!  That's one thing I love about this list - you're all so
patient and even when you probably think someone is a total dolt, you're
always so polite!  :-)

Regards,

Colleen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts and KDE SC

[Indi]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 02:37:32PM -0400, CJoeB wrote:
> On 06/04/11 14:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > On 06/04/2011 08:54 PM, CJoeB wrote:
> >> Hi all.
> >>
> >> Okay, colour me "so stupid", but I want to add some TrueType fonts to
> >> KDE and I can't figure out how to do it.  In my previous KDE install,
> >> there used to be a menu item for adding fonts.  I *have* googled for
> >> this, but haven't found anything relevant.  Can someone please help?
> >
> > In System Settings, in the "System Administration" section, there is a
> > "Font Installer" icon.
> 
> Okay, I AM stupid - not normally, but in this instance ..... YES!  Would
> you believe that I looked in "System Settings", but just did scroll down
> far enough to see the "System Administration" section.
> 
> Thanks, guys, for your patience and not coming right out and calling me
> an idiot!  That's one thing I love about this list - you're all so
> patient and even when you probably think someone is a total dolt, you're
> always so polite!  :-)
> 

For me it's very challenging to find things in those menus or in the
"desktop" thicket of icons everyone seems to be so fond of -- so much 
easier just to configure things by editing text files.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts and KDE SC

[Mick]

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On Saturday 04 Jun 2011 19:59:36 Indi wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 02:37:32PM -0400, CJoeB wrote:
> > On 06/04/11 14:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> > > In System Settings, in the "System Administration" section, there is a
> > > "Font Installer" icon.
> > 
> > Okay, I AM stupid - not normally, but in this instance ..... YES!  Would
> > you believe that I looked in "System Settings", but just did scroll down
> > far enough to see the "System Administration" section.
> > 
> > Thanks, guys, for your patience and not coming right out and calling me
> > an idiot!  That's one thing I love about this list - you're all so
> > patient and even when you probably think someone is a total dolt, you're
> > always so polite!  :-)
> 
> For me it's very challenging to find things in those menus or in the
> "desktop" thicket of icons everyone seems to be so fond of -- so much
> easier just to configure things by editing text files.

If you want to add them manually use the GUI advice already given, or save any 
desired font files in ~/.fonts

However, I would probably emerge:

 media-fonts/corefonts
 media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera
 media-fonts/font-bh-ttf 

and perhaps:

 media-fonts/freefont-ttf
 media-fonts/libertine-ttf

to have them system wide.

eix -l ttf  and  eix -l fonts will show relevant files.

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