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Subject:RE: Follow-up to Linux experimentation thread From:KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:04:49 -0500
Bruce,
IS there such a thing as an across-the-board font
installation in Linux? Or, even an across-the-KDE
or an across-the-Gnome font installation?
Or are they all like the StarOffice font handling,
which (as you suggest) works fine for StarOffice
use, but seems to be invisible to other apps on the
desktop?
What, by the way, was the procedure you alluded to?
Is there a useful Info or HowTo? Did you happen to
write up your homegrown procedure?
Kevin (never-turn-down-freebies) McLauchlan
Ottawa, Canada
PS: I'm learning more about RPM, so it turns out
that it can be almost as "friendly" as Debian
package handling.
[snip]
> I'd give a lot for a decent method of font installation, too.
> I know how to install both postscript and TrueType fonts, but
> the procedure is very awkward for both - so much so that I
> really advise anyone adding fonts to add as many as possible
> at one time, so that they don't have to repeat it.
>
>
> These lacks tend to restrict Linux's usefulness for
> tech-writing, although it has very good tools for HTML and
> XML, and Star/Open Office is no worse than MS Word and has a
> decent font-installer for its own purposes.
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