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Can't get downloaded fonts to work.

Asked by Patrick Henry

I downloaded some cool fonts from the internet, but they landed on my desktop. Guess I should have specified where they were to go, but I didn't know how. They don't work from the desktop.

Anyway, a friend told me the fonts wouldn't work until I drag and drop the files into the font file under usr/share/fonts/truetype. When I tried to do this, however, the program told me "Error while copying to '/usr/local/share/fonts'. You do not have permissions to write to this folder."

Please tell me where I should store downloaded fonts, and how to get permission from God to put them there.

Pat

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jz (jz+) said : 		#1

If you want to write to that folder you will need to use su...

In a terminal type:

sudo nautilus

You should then be able to navigate to the directory where the fonts you downloaded reside (your desktop) and copy them to usr/share/fonts/truetype

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Alexandre Vassalotti (avassalotti) said : 		#2

Another way would to copy the fonts to "~/.fonts/", which doesn't require root permissions.

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Patrick Henry (patrickhenryinator) said : 		#3

Here's what happened when I tried to do that:

pat@home:~$ sudo nautilus
Password:
Init bluetooth plugin
Init evolution plugin
Init gaim plugin

** ERROR **: failed to open local addressbook

aborting...
Init bluetooth plugin
Init evolution plugin
Init gaim plugin
Init bluetooth plugin
Init evolution plugin
Init gaim plugin
Init bluetooth plugin
Init evolution plugin
Init gaim plugin
/usr/bin/file-roller
--add-to="/tmp/nautilus-sendto-root/1172536194/Files.tar.gz"
"/root/Desktop/1001freefonts.txt"
CalDAV Eplugin starting up ...

(evolution-2.6:24134): evolution-mail-WARNING **: ignored this junk
plugin: not enabled or we have already loaded one

(evolution-2.6:24134): e-utils-WARNING **: Plugin 'Bogofilter junk
plugin' failed to load hook 'org.gnome.evolution.mail.junk:1.0'
Setting up initial mail tree
addressbook_migrate (0.0.0)
Init bluetooth plugin
Init evolution plugin
Init gaim plugin
CalDAV Eplugin starting up ...

(evolution-2.6:24212): evolution-mail-WARNING **: ignored this junk
plugin: not enabled or we have already loaded one

(evolution-2.6:24212): e-utils-WARNING **: Plugin 'Bogofilter junk
plugin' failed to load hook 'org.gnome.evolution.mail.junk:1.0'

(evolution-2.6:24212): evolution-mail-WARNING **: unable to open
/root/.evolution/mail/config/gtkrc-mail-fonts

(evolution-2.6:24212): evolution-mail-WARNING **: unable to open
/root/.evolution/mail/config/gtkrc-mail-fonts

(evolution-2.6:24212): evolution-mail-WARNING **: unable to open
/root/.evolution/mail/config/gtkrc-mail-fonts

(evolution-2.6:24212): evolution-mail-WARNING **: unable to open
/root/.evolution/mail/config/gtkrc-mail-fonts

(evolution-2.6:24212): evolution-mail-WARNING **: unable to open
/root/.evolution/mail/config/gtkrc-mail-fonts

(evolution-2.6:24212): evolution-mail-WARNING **: unable to open
/root/.evolution/mail/config/gtkrc-mail-fonts

(evolution-2.6:24212): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_label_set_text: assertion
`GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed
pat@home:~$
** (evolution-2.6:24212): WARNING **: Failed to connect to the D-BUS
daemon: No reply within specified time

I right clicked on the icons on my desktop, and it offered me to send
them to the font file, so I did. They disappeared from the desktop, but
when I look in the font file they aren't there. They seem to have gone
into the great black cyberhole, where I'm sure they will never be seen
again. Moreover, when I look on OpenOffice the fonts I downloaded are
still not there.

So no big deal -- I can download more fonts. But would somebody please
tell me what I should do in the future when I get fonts from the
internet? What is the procedure I must follow to incorporate them into
my word processing program?

Pat

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Gord Allott (gordallott) said : 		#4

just download the fonts to your desktop (or where ever you want to) and then move them to the ~/.fonts/ directory (~ means your home directory) typically by doing

mv filename_of_the_font_goes_here ~/.fonts/

once you have navigated to the directory that you downloaded the fonts to.

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