[techtalk] Font confusion

[Kelly Lynn Martin]

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:53:25 -0400 (EDT), Ingrid Schupbach <ingrid at miranda.org> said:

>I have spent the past hour trying to figure out how to give myself
>more font options in gimp.  Currently I only have 4 fonts.  I went to
>gimp.org and downloaded a big file of fonts, and I unzipped and
>untarred it, but I have no clue where to put it.  Do I put it in some
>.gimp directory?  Some .gnome directory?  I can't seem to find where
>my fonts live.

They go in /usr/X11/lib/fonts.  I think the "freefonts" bundle that
is available for download from gimp.org includes a Makefile; try doing 
a "make install".

Kelly

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