adding True Type fonts to OO

Hi,

Am playing with my wife's lovely new Aspire today but can't seem to add in all the TTFs she needs. I zipped them from my home PC onto a USB stick and uncompressed them on the Aspire (boy, was I amazed when it offered to unzip them to the fonts folder... been working with Windows FAR too long!) but can't see them in Writer.

I found some information online about the spadmin application but don't know how to run it. I am a complete Windows head so am baffled.

Can someone write me a quick idiots guide please?

Much appreciated.

 

Try to follow those directions,
http://howtoforge.com/the-perfect-deskt ... suse-11-p5

(Hope it works/no missing dependencies when I tried another package / 'msttcorefonts'. Alternate solution,
http://howtoforge.com/the-perfect-deskt ... yssa-r1-p4 )

 

Hi jeromlenz,

Many thanks for the instructions, that worked perfectly first time. One of the reasons I took the plunge on the Acer was because I found this forum which seemed to be full of helpful (and tolerant of first-time Linux users! ) people. You haven't let me down.

Happy Aspiring. :lol:

 

[TO DO!]adding True Type fonts to OO(MS Office compatible)

Hi, thanks!
I'm glad it worked and always happy to help when I know the answer or part of it.
(also tried Linux not so long ago and still learning!... ;-)
Cheers,
J.

PS: True Type fonts should be installed by default to be able to see all MS documents indeed,
the "howtoforge.org" site and "perfect desktop" series give great advice!

I like this one also for clearer system fonts as in windowsXP - for the Gnome/Ubuntu users:
http://howtoforge.com/sharp_fonts_gnome
(Didn't try on the AAOne/Linpus - should be possible as well.)

 

...there's also a different solution.
1) create a hidden folder named ".fonts" (the dot is important!) in your home directory.
=> file menager, ctrl+h to see hidden folders and create a new one.
2) copy your ttf font(s) inside this new directory.
3) from a root terminal (for root terminal ALT+F2 and type "sudo terminal") type "fc-cache -f -v".

taht's all

...anyway, nice tip jeromlenz