1 Installing GNU FreeFont
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4 GNU FreeFont can be used in any modern operating system.
6 This document explains how to install FreeFont on some common systems.
8 UNIX/GNU/Linux/BSD Systems
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11 FreeFont works with any system using the free font rasterizer FreeType
12 <http://www.freetype.org/>. Some features such as glyph substitution and
13 positioning may be handled by the text layout library
14 Pango <http://www.pango.org/>.
16 Most recent systems using FreeType2 and Pango handle OpenType fonts well,
17 but on older systems TrueType may perform better.
21 Users of Debian GNU/Linux system will probably want to use the Debian package,
22 named 'ttf-freefont', available from the Debian Linux site.
24 Install the fonts by issuing the command
25 apt-get install ttf-freefont
28 * KDE local installation
30 Users of KDE can install .ttf files on a per-user basis using the KDE
31 Control Center module "kcmfontinst", which may appear in the menu as
33 Settings -> System Administration -> Font Installer
35 This is especially helpful for developers and testers.
38 * Generic X Window systems
40 1) Fetch the freefont-ttf.tar.gz package with Free UCS outline fonts
41 in the TrueType format.
43 2) Unpack TrueType fonts into a suitable directory,
44 e.g. /usr/local/share/fonts/default/TrueType/
46 3) If you have chosen any other directory, make sure the directory you
47 used to install the fonts is listed in the path searched by the X
48 Font Server by editing the config file in /etc/X11/.
50 In some systems, you list the directory in the item "catalogue="
51 in the file /etc/X11/fs/config.
53 4) Run ttmkfdir in the directory where you unpacked the fonts.
56 Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP; Vista/7
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59 Note that in at least Windows 7, Vista, XP and 2000, the TrueType versions
60 perform much better than, and are recommended over, the OpenType ones.
62 For good font smoothing in Windows, Microsoft ClearType must be enabled.
63 The native Windows web browser must be used to install, enable, and configure
64 ClearType. A web search for "ClearType Tuner" will find the proper web pages.
65 Recent versions of the browser raise a security block (a yellow bar at the
66 top of the window), which you must act upon to allow installation. A
67 checkbox in the window turns ClearType on (in Win-speek, "Turn on ClearType").
68 The change happens immediately.
71 1) From the Start menu, open Control Panels
72 2) Drag-n-drop font files onto Fonts control panel
73 You may get a dialog saying
74 "Windows needs your permission to continue"
78 The font installation is similar to Vista.
80 In order to use OpenType, users of Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0 can
81 install Adobe's 'Type Manager Light', which may be obtained from
84 Otherwise, use the TrueType versions.
89 Support for OpenType on MacOS X started with OS 10.4, and has been improved
90 gradually in later versions.
92 Installing on Mac OS X consists of moving the font files to either
93 /Library/Fonts/ or ~/Library/Fonts/
94 depending on whether they should be available to all users on your system
95 or just to your own user.
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98 $Id: INSTALL,v 1.11 2011-06-12 07:14:12 Stevan_White Exp $