Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:37:46 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Michael Rudolph <michael.rudolph@gmail.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD's and fonts.... Message-ID: <20071112023746.GA44553@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <200711120058.15259.michael.rudolph@gmail.com> References: <20071111225550.GA42346@thought.org> <200711120058.15259.michael.rudolph@gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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 <<whereever>> > > 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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20071112023746.GA44553>