From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 13 22:30:28 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 6598016A41B for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:30:28 +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 0B8FA13C4E3 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:30:27 +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 lADMUEPx062354; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:30:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id lADMUDhL062353; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:30:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:30:13 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Michael Rudolph Message-ID: <20071113223013.GA62132@thought.org> References: <20071111225550.GA42346@thought.org> <200711120058.15259.michael.rudolph@gmail.com> <20071112023746.GA44553@thought.org> <200711121108.25391.michael.rudolph@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200711121108.25391.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: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:30:28 -0000 On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 11:08:24AM +0100, Michael Rudolph wrote: [[ ... ]] > I assume konqueror is chocking because you have font previews enabled. > If you deselect "Font Files" in konquerors View > Preview submenu, > prior to entering your font directory, you should be able to use > konqueror. As I said before, it's a piece of cake to do it this way. We evidently have our browsers configured differently because I didn't find anything-fonts under View. And all I find under Settings -> "Configure Konqueror" -> "TT\nFonts" didn't seem to apply... . > > If you want to do it as per the handbook, you'd have to copy your font > files to an appropriate directory, which could look something like > this: > > # cp /media/cdrom/1/*.ttf /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType Yes, this CLI command did work. It's the same as I used on my Ubuntu server. For FBSD I had to use another command to correctly build the truetype font files for X. But works. Thanks for your help! > > I'm not sure if I understood you question correctly, but either the man > page for cp(1) might help or you ask again here. I have a slew of Postscript files that I ported for use with the free version of the Enscript port, but these should work almost the same way. cheers! gary > > Have a nice time. > > michael -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org