Re: making more fonts available

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

Ross <ross.h [at] ntlworld.com> tapped some keys and produced:

> hi,
> can anyone tell me if it is possible to make more fonts available to 
> netscape
> and kfm browsers. i'm running suse6.3

Yep. Have you got URW fonts installed? (Do a "locate URW" and see what shows
up) They are available from various places. Try www.gimp.org and look for
fonts. There are two RPMS available on rpmfind.net (called freefonts and
sharefonts, that are freeware and shareware fonts)
BTW, I have no idea how someone came up with the idea of a shareware font
either.

> i need them for viewing a web page i'm making and don't want to have to 
> revert back to windows to do it!

Erk. Specifying fonts using the FONT= tag is not the best idea. It basically
works on the browser you desinged it with and that's it.
If you want Windows (TrueType) fonts to be available to you find a TT font
server (xfstt is one, and there is at least one other). SuSE may install
one by default (AFAIK RH 6.2 does), but if it doesn't look on freshmeat for
xfstt and get it installed, mount your Windows partition (If you have one,
otherwise just get c:\windows\fonts\*) and point the font server at
the Windows fonts. That should work. :)
Setting up XFree is something of a black art though...
 

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