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15 Installing and Conguring Fonts

for the Graphical User Interface

The installation of additional fonts in openSUSE® is very easy. Simply copy the fonts

to any directory located in the X11 font path. To enable the use of the fonts, the in-

stallation directory should be a subdirectory of the directories congured in /etc/

fonts/fonts.conf or included into this le with /etc/fonts/suse-font-dirs.conf.

The following is an excerpt from /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. This le is the standard

conguration le that should be appropriate for most congurations. It also denes

the included directory /etc/fonts/conf.d. In this directory, all les or symbolic links

starting with a two digit number are loaded by fontcong. For a more detailed expla-

nation of this functionality, have a look at /etc/fonts/conf.d/README.

<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>

<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>

<dir>/opt/kde3/share/fonts</dir>

<dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir>

<dir>~/.fonts</dir>

/etc/fonts/suse-font-dirs.conf is automatically generated to pull in fonts that ship

with (mostly third party) applications like OpenOce.org, Java or Adobe Acrobat

Reader. A typical entry would look like the following:

<dir>/usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Font</dir>

<dir>/usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Font/PFM</dir>

15.1 Adding Fonts

To install additional fonts system wide, manually copy the font les to a suitable di-

rectory (as root), such as /usr/share/fonts/truetype. Alternatively, the task can be

performed with the KDE font installer in the System Settings. The result is the same.

Instead of copying the actual fonts, you can also create symbolic links. For example,

you may want to do this if you have licensed fonts on a mounted Windows partition

and want to use them. Subsequently, run SuSEconfig --module fonts.

SuSEconfig --module fonts executes the script /usr/sbin/fonts-config, which

handles the font conguration. For more information on this script, refer to its man-

ual page (man fonts-config).

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