From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 12 02:38:00 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50FA916A419 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:38:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0EB113C4A7 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:37:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id lAC2bkHJ044598; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:37:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id lAC2bktL044597; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:37:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:37:46 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Michael Rudolph Message-ID: <20071112023746.GA44553@thought.org> References: <20071111225550.GA42346@thought.org> <200711120058.15259.michael.rudolph@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200711120058.15259.michael.rudolph@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21 of service to the Unix community. Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD's and fonts.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:38:00 -0000 On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 12:58:13AM +0100, Michael Rudolph wrote: > On Sunday 11 November 2007 23:55:50 Gary Kline wrote: > > After many tries , my secoond burner finally opopened a CD full > > of hundreds of TTF fonts. I don't know how to use the graphics > > widget to move the contents of /media/cdrom/1 to <> > > so that all these fonts are usable by both AbiWord and OOo-2.3. > > (On my Ubuntu platform I used the command line to copy from > > /cdrom/*.ttf to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/. ) > > > > I am using the OOo font wizard to install the few M$ free fonts, > > but sem to be missing BASIC. [[???]]. At any rate, any tips or > > insights would be very much appreciated here. > > > > tia, > > > > gary > > Hi Gary, > > as far as I know, you are using KDE, which makes things pretty easy. You > can just use Konqueror to browse to your fonts and use the appropriate > option in the context menu to install the selected fonts. > > If you want to do the font installation by hand, as you described, you > have to make sure that X is aware of the directory where your font > files reside and that the directory is properly prepared. This is best > described in the handbook: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html > > I hope that helps. > > michael Well, your handbook URL helped, :-) ... I have in bookmarked in konq. I pointed the browser at the CDROM but there were too many files--hundred--and the browser choked. I'm not sure if I can do a CLI cp -rp from the disk, so I'm **trying** to figure out how to use these GUI tools. If you , or anyone else, would be so kind as too explain how to copy one file or multiple files or a directory and its subdirectories from (say) /media/cdrom/1 to /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType, I would be much obliged. Typing a single string in an xterm seems lots easier than doing it by file-manager. ... thanks, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org