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- Installing GNU FreeFont
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- GNU FreeFont can be used in any modern operating system.
-
- This document explains how to install FreeFont on some common systems.
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- UNIX/GNU/Linux/BSD Systems
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-
- FreeFont works with any system using the free font rasterizer FreeType
- <http://www.freetype.org/>. Some features such as glyph substitution and
- positioning may be handled by the text layout library
- Pango <http://www.pango.org/>.
-
- Most recent systems using FreeType2 and Pango handle OpenType fonts well,
- but on older systems TrueType may perform better.
-
- * Debian GNU/Linux
-
- Users of Debian GNU/Linux system will probably want to use the Debian package,
- named 'ttf-freefont', available from the Debian Linux site.
-
- Install the fonts by issuing the command
- apt-get install ttf-freefont
-
-
- * KDE local installation
-
- Users of KDE can install .ttf files on a per-user basis using the KDE
- Control Center module "kcmfontinst", which may appear in the menu as
-
- Settings -> System Administration -> Font Installer
-
- This is especially helpful for developers and testers.
-
-
- * Generic X Window systems
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- 1) Fetch the freefont-ttf.tar.gz package with Free UCS outline fonts
- in the TrueType format.
-
- 2) Unpack TrueType fonts into a suitable directory,
- e.g. /usr/local/share/fonts/default/TrueType/
-
- 3) If you have chosen any other directory, make sure the directory you
- used to install the fonts is listed in the path searched by the X
- Font Server by editing the config file in /etc/X11/.
-
- In some systems, you list the directory in the item "catalogue="
- in the file /etc/X11/fs/config.
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- 4) Run ttmkfdir in the directory where you unpacked the fonts.
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- Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP; Vista/7
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- Note that in at least Windows 7, Vista, XP and 2000, the TrueType versions
- perform much better than, and are recommended over, the OpenType ones.
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- For good font smoothing in Windows, Microsoft ClearType must be enabled.
- The native Windows web browser must be used to install, enable, and configure
- ClearType. A web search for "ClearType Tuner" will find the proper web pages.
- Recent versions of the browser raise a security block (a yellow bar at the
- top of the window), which you must act upon to allow installation. A
- checkbox in the window turns ClearType on (in Win-speek, "Turn on ClearType").
- The change happens immediately.
-
- * Vista, Windows 7:
- 1) From the Start menu, open Control Panels
- 2) Drag-n-drop font files onto Fonts control panel
- You may get a dialog saying
- "Windows needs your permission to continue"
- a) Click Continue
-
- * 95/98/NT:
- The font installation is similar to Vista.
-
- In order to use OpenType, users of Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0 can
- install Adobe's 'Type Manager Light', which may be obtained from
- the Adobe web site.
-
- Otherwise, use the TrueType versions.
-
- Apple Mac OS X
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-
- Support for OpenType on MacOS X started with OS 10.4, and has been improved
- gradually in later versions.
-
- Installing on Mac OS X consists of moving the font files to either
- /Library/Fonts/ or ~/Library/Fonts/
- depending on whether they should be available to all users on your system
- or just to your own user.
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- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.11 2011-06-12 07:14:12 Stevan_White Exp $
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