Re: [aclug-L] font question

[Jesse Kaufman <kaufmjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

thank you VERY much...  i've been going insane w/ so few ugly (IMHO) fonts...
i'm a sucker for good looking documents, and i hate being limited to either a
Helvetica or Times-type font for my homework (i like Comic Sans! : ^ )

will these fonts register in Word Perfect 8, then?

jesse

Greg House wrote:

> >can someone please explain to me how to add fonts to linux?  i want to
> >be able to use them in WindowMaker, etc and WordPerfect...
>
> It's pretty easy, get the fonts into a directory, run a script to prepare
> them and then tell X that they're there (include them in the font path).  I
> haven't done it myself, and don't remember all the details, but there's an
> article that includes instructions for this in the Linux Gazette archives.
> It's in the "The Graphics Muse" column.
>
> http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue14/gm.html
>
> Somewhere down toward the bottom, it starts in the left hand column.
>
> Greg
>
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