Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 504

<!-- Font directory list -->
<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>
<dir>~/.fonts/kde-override</dir>
<include ignore_missing="yes">suse-font-dirs.conf</include>
/etc/fonts/suse-font-dirs.conf is automatically generated to pull in fonts
that ship with (mostly third party) applications like OpenOffice.org, Java or Adobe
Acrobat Reader. Some typical entries of /etc/fonts/suse-font-dirs.conf
would look like the following:
<dir>/usr/lib/ooo-2.0/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/lib/ooo-2.0/share/fonts/truetype</dir>
<dir>/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0_update10/jre/lib/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Resource/Font</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Resource/Font/PFM</dir>
To install additional fonts systemwide, manually copy the font files to a suitable direc-
tory (as root), such as /usr/share/fonts/truetype. Alternatively, the task
can be performed with the KDE font installer in the KDE Control Center. 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 configuration. For more information on this
script, refer to its manual page (man fonts-config ).
The procedure is the same for bitmap fonts, TrueType and OpenType fonts, and Type1
(PostScript) fonts. All these font types can be installed into any directory.
X.Org contains two completely different font systems: the old X11 core font system
and the newly designed Xft and fontconfig system. The following sections briefly de-
scribe these two systems.
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