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Re: Where and how do I install a TTF font?

From: Mumia W.. <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam(at)earthlink.net>
Date: Sun Sep 02 2007 - 06:51:01 EDT

On 09/02/2007 03:23 AM, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
> (CC me on answers, please)

Sure.

>
> Hi!

Hi Nelson.

>
> I have a PDF (http://naoliv.googlepages.com/giap.pdf) that uses a
> Bar25if font (http://naoliv.googlepages.com/Bar25if.ttf).
>
> Installing it to a directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-barcod25
> and registering it with "defoma-font reregister-all
> ttf-barcod25.hints" seems to work with Evince. But trying to open the
> PDF with xpdf, acroread or trying to print it, it doesn't work (the
> bar code font isn't displayed on them).
>
> Do anybody knows what I have to do to have this font working on my
> system, please?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Best regards,
> Nelson
>
>

You might also need to do this:

mkfontscale /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/

xset fp+ /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/

Do you need help?

Those commands prepare the fonts to be seen by XFree86; they'll probably work the same with Xorg.

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