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I have wanted to do that with my RH9 install with the verdana font, but have read many conflicting stories about how it is done.... a google search for "Red Hat Fonts" is where I got the links to read, but I don't know how useful they will be to you...

Okay, I did some reading and found a way that works.

First, search an XP installation or the first XP disc for all '*.ttf' files. Copy them to the '/usr/share/fonts' directory on your Linux box. What you will need to do is put them in a folder of their own (put them in a folder called 'truetype' or something instead of just dumping them into the '/usr/share/fonts/' directory).

To make the fonts available for OpenOffice, also copy the fonts into the directory '/usr/lib/openoffice/share/fonts/truetype/'. You can just dump them in here... no need for another subdirectory.

Next, go to the command line and run the command (as root)
'fc-cache /usr/share/fonts'. Do not put a space between 'fc' and '-cache' or it will not work. DO put a space between '-cache' and '/usr......' though.

I just did this on Red Hat 8 and Red Hat 9 boxes and it works. If you have any problems, drop me an email. Take care.

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Next, go to the command line and run the command (as root)
'fc-cache /usr/share/fonts'. Do not put a space between 'fc' and '-cache' or it will not work. DO put a space between '-cache' and '/usr......' though.

I just did this on Red Hat 8 and Red Hat 9 boxes and it works. If you have any problems, drop me an email. Take care.

Thanks a lot, I've solved my problem with that! (I could not use TTF fonts in KDE).

One of the problems, why you get so many 'conflicting' stories about how to install is because of the many different fontservers for X.

If you stick to the latest versions of the various distros, you generally will end up with XFT2 (standard on X 4.3). RedHat has included various other fontservers, as far as I know. Since I am a slackie myself, I have had to resort to other ways again.... The strength of linux is also one of it's weaknesses. Because of the huge number of options for each and every function, you also get many different 'manuals', some of which may work and others may not...

I use SuSE 8.0 with kde 3.1
I just installed several ttf-fonts with just a few mouseclicks, using kcontrol->administration->font installer
Install the fonts as root user, and the font installer does the rest for you.
To get the font in all apps, like openoffice, etc, you might have to restart X.
Be aware that not every word processor is capable of handling non-postscript fonts.

rinse