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Birdman

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From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 121

OOo extra fonts

For several years I have run the various iterations of OOo on many distros. I have now arrived at arch with OOo2. I have used the admin tool to use the truetype fonts on my WinXP partition using soft links and this works very well. However, if I copy the Fonts folder across to my linux partition and ensure that the permissions match those for the current OOo fonts folder, when I go into the admin tool and navigate to the new folder it does not list any fonts  :?  If have used this technique before (not with arch) and it has worked. The reason that I need this to work is that I am preping a new linux-only box for a friend and the soft-link method will not be an option. Any ideas?

scarecrow

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From: Greece

Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 715

Re: OOo extra fonts

The freely distributable MS fonts are readily available ( pacman -S ttf-ms-fonts ), and regarding your XP partition ones- may I ask which admin tool you're referring to?

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Birdman

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From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 121

Re: OOo extra fonts

The freely distributable MS fonts are readily available ( pacman -S ttf-ms-fonts ), and regarding your XP partition ones- may I ask which admin tool you're referring to?

I was refering to spadmin - the tool that lets you setup your printer and fonts.

Thanks for the fonts tip - I'll give that a go 

acetylcholine

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From: NY, USA

Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 46

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Re: OOo extra fonts

maybe i am missing the point here but

you could cp the fonts from the windows partition or where ever to say ~/.fonts
and then add ~/.fonts to your font paths in xorg.conf

i've done it forever and they show up