<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">That didn't work.<br><br>I can't see how /PCBSD/local/etc/fonts connects to /Programs/Firefox3.5.2/lib/X11/fonts<br><br>Don't I need a link from the latter to the former?<br><br>More confusing...<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 8/25/09, Kris Moore <i><kris@pcbsd.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org><br>Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Testing] MS Font PBI not working?<br>To: "PC-BSD Testing list" <testing@lists.pcbsd.org><br>Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 12:15 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br><br>Ahh, ok solved this here.<br><br>You'll need to do this for all PBIs you want to use the system fonts:<br><br># cd /Programs/<PBI>/lib<br># rm X11<br># ln -s /PCBSD/local/lib/X11 X11<br><br>I did this here, and now my fonts in FF
work perfectly. I'm guessing you have same<br>issue with OO as well, the etc/fonts link doesn't seem to matter in this case.<br><br><br>--<br>Kris Moore<br>PC-BSD Software<br><br>On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Jeff wrote:<br><br>> Also have this path to X11 fonts: /usr/X11R6/share/fonts/TrueType<br>> <br>> Is there some way to centralize all the fonts? The contents of /PCBSD/local/etc/fonts are not TTF files.<br>> <br>> Confusing...<br>> <br>> --- On Tue, 8/25/09, Jeff <<a ymailto="mailto:dejamuse@yahoo.com" href="/mc/compose?to=dejamuse@yahoo.com">dejamuse@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> From: Jeff <<a ymailto="mailto:dejamuse@yahoo.com" href="/mc/compose?to=dejamuse@yahoo.com">dejamuse@yahoo.com</a>><br>> Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Testing] MS Font PBI not working?<br>> To: "PC-BSD Testing list" <<a
ymailto="mailto:testing@lists.pcbsd.org" href="/mc/compose?to=testing@lists.pcbsd.org">testing@lists.pcbsd.org</a>><br>> Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 11:27 AM<br>><br>> That didn't work. The link was made, but OO still cannot see system fonts.<br>><br>> BTW, I discovered this because Verdana was not available to Firefox, which is the most ubiquitous web font.<br>><br>> --- On Tue, 8/25/09, Kris Moore <<a ymailto="mailto:kris@pcbsd.org" href="/mc/compose?to=kris@pcbsd.org">kris@pcbsd.org</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> From: Kris Moore <<a ymailto="mailto:kris@pcbsd.org" href="/mc/compose?to=kris@pcbsd.org">kris@pcbsd.org</a>><br>> Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Testing] MS Font PBI not
working?<br>> To: "PC-BSD Testing list" <<a ymailto="mailto:testing@lists.pcbsd.org" href="/mc/compose?to=testing@lists.pcbsd.org">testing@lists.pcbsd.org</a>><br>> Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 9:16 AM<br>> <br>> <br>><br>> Jeff,<br>><br>> The font PBI installs fonts to the system folder properly, but it looks like OO, and probably the other PBIs<br>> aren't<br>> looking in the system folder for fonts. Give this a shot and let me know if it fixes it:<br>><br>> cd /Programs/OpenOffice*/etc<br>> ln
-s /PCBSD/local/etc/fonts fonts<br>><br>> start OO, do you have the fonts now? If so, I'll get that fix put into the PBIs right away.<br>><br>> As for KDE 4.3.0, it'll be included with PC-BSD 8.0 later this year. Its a large update, since it moves us to QT<br>> 4.5<br>> and I'm having to fix up a lot of our tools to work on it :)<br>> <br>><br>> --<br>> Kris Moore<br>> PC-BSD Software<br>><br>> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Jeff wrote:<br>><br>> > I have
the MS True-type font PBI installed, but can't see any of the fonts in FF3 or OpenOffice or Abi Word. <br>> Where exactly are they<br>> > supposed to be available?<br>> ><br>> > I presume there's no UI for this PBI and it just installs fonts somewhere.<br>> ><br>> > Every application seems to have its own set of fonts with some that apparently come with KDE. There are lots<br>> of other available fonts<br>> > out there but there's no good way of centrally managing them and installing them in
KDE it seems, complicated<br>> by the different font<br>> > packaging techniques. Seems to me there used to be some KDE font manager/installer app but I can't find it in<br>> the menu, and from what I<br>> > remember, it wasn't especially useful.<br>> ><br>> > What to do?<br>> ><br>> > P.S., When might we expect an upgrade to KDE 4.3?<br>> ><br>> ><br>>
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