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I wanna add some new fonts to my slack, i want arial, times new roman... all that stuff... but well... how do i start? Where i can get some packages ...
  1. 02-07-2005 #1
    Shagrath
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    Installing new fonts in my Slack system

    I wanna add some new fonts to my slack, i want arial, times new roman... all that stuff... but well... how do i start?

    Where i can get some packages of fonts... and how do install them in order to work with X???


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  2. 02-08-2005 #2
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    Those fonts you just listed are relatively run of the mill. Have you tried using those fonts in say OpenOffice or some other Word Processor?
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    You'll probably need to install the corefonts package to get those M$ TTFs:

    http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

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