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Bangel

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Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 45

Fonts trouble

How do I see a list of fonts installed on my system and where they are?
I want to make a package of those fonts, save them and use them in another arch installation just the way I use them now. Can I do that?

oliwer

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From: Paris

Registered: 2007-06-30

Posts: 153

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Re: Fonts trouble

Your fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/ and maybe also in ~/.fonts/.

To watch my fonts, I like using Opcion font viewer > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=opcion

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Leigh

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From: USA

Registered: 2004-06-25

Posts: 533

Re: Fonts trouble

"fc-list" will display all installed fonts on your system.

"fc-list : family" displays all font familys.

"fc-list : family file" will display all font families including thier path

or if you want to just list fonts for a certain language, like for example Chinese. You could do...
"fc-list : lang=zh" or "fc-list : lang=zh family file" will list only Chinese fonts.

Last edited by Leigh (2007-07-01 04:52:05)

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gradgrind

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 921

Re: Fonts trouble

If you make a package of your fonts for use in another installation you might get conflicts with the original font packages, which may be dependents of other packages. The best way to do it would probably be to note which font packages you have installed and then reinstall these.

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Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: Fonts trouble

Your fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/ and maybe also in ~/.fonts/.

Yeah, I am sure there are fonts in ~, because I just reinstalled Arch on a new / partition and kept my old /home partition, and all my fonts and eye candy are still there. (as well as everything else in /home )

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