Liberation Fonts Released
Liberation Fonts Released
Red Hat releases Liberation fonts to replace Windows core fonts:
Article: http://applications.linux.com/applicati ... 8240.shtml
Fonts: https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/
Article: http://applications.linux.com/applicati ... 8240.shtml
Fonts: https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/
Jam
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I've followed above steps and my puppy (2.16) crashed!
Now, the system goes to a terminal. Nothing happens if I type:
xwin
xwin jwm
xwin starticewm
xorgwizard
After these commands, it just appears the mouse pointer on a black screen and after some time, it backs to the terminal.
I've removed the dir /root/.fonts and reboot the machine and even with that, the system were not recovered.
I was using icewm before installing these fonts.
Any clue?
Thanks in advance
kkpity
Now, the system goes to a terminal. Nothing happens if I type:
xwin
xwin jwm
xwin starticewm
xorgwizard
After these commands, it just appears the mouse pointer on a black screen and after some time, it backs to the terminal.
I've removed the dir /root/.fonts and reboot the machine and even with that, the system were not recovered.
I was using icewm before installing these fonts.
Any clue?
Thanks in advance
kkpity
Linux user #388359 (http://counter.li.org/)
Liberation Fonts Release
Barry,
You covered the subject well in your Developer News area for those that do not fully grasp the significance of this fonts release and the impact it will have on the community. Up until now, after years and years of effort, there hasn't been a suitable candidate for Windows core fonts although some font sets have come very close, and I tip my hat to Red Hat for this great contribution. Unlike Lindows they have the corporate/legal strength to stand up to any legal challenge, and the global presence to stand up to these challenges world-wide.
Looking forward to having you include these fonts as defaults in the next Puppy release.
Thanks for your hard work!
You covered the subject well in your Developer News area for those that do not fully grasp the significance of this fonts release and the impact it will have on the community. Up until now, after years and years of effort, there hasn't been a suitable candidate for Windows core fonts although some font sets have come very close, and I tip my hat to Red Hat for this great contribution. Unlike Lindows they have the corporate/legal strength to stand up to any legal challenge, and the global presence to stand up to these challenges world-wide.
Looking forward to having you include these fonts as defaults in the next Puppy release.
Thanks for your hard work!
Jam
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Liberation Fonts Released
I extracted the fonts into /user/share/fonts/default/TTF and restarted Xserver. All seems to be well with my systems. (I have puppy installed on a USB drive and on a hard drive.) Is this a not a good place to put them? And if it is not a good place to to them why not?
No disrespect intended I just want to learn. On a Windows system I would just drop them into the Fonts folder.
No disrespect intended I just want to learn. On a Windows system I would just drop them into the Fonts folder.
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I was going to post about this on Barry's blog:
Someone posted recently about enabling Hebrew/Arabic/Farsi by installing the MS Ariel fonts.
I commented that the DejaVu fonts that come with Puppy should also do the job and probably the Liberation fonts, too.
He reported that the DejaVu fonts worked (I already know they work out-of-the-box in Puppy, both for writing documents and for seeing filenames in Rox).
He also reported that the Liberation fonts did not work.
I tested them, running all three font updating commands and they do not work, neither in Hebrew, nor in Arabic, so I have no idea what kind of Unicode implementation they have. (I checked the fonts.dir and fonts.scale and they showed a unicode mode).
So it's probably not a good idea to replace the DejaVu fonts with them.
Someone posted recently about enabling Hebrew/Arabic/Farsi by installing the MS Ariel fonts.
I commented that the DejaVu fonts that come with Puppy should also do the job and probably the Liberation fonts, too.
He reported that the DejaVu fonts worked (I already know they work out-of-the-box in Puppy, both for writing documents and for seeing filenames in Rox).
He also reported that the Liberation fonts did not work.
I tested them, running all three font updating commands and they do not work, neither in Hebrew, nor in Arabic, so I have no idea what kind of Unicode implementation they have. (I checked the fonts.dir and fonts.scale and they showed a unicode mode).
So it's probably not a good idea to replace the DejaVu fonts with them.
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Some say your toes
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Some say your toes
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