Font problem

[Cefiar]

On Monday 08 October 2007 02:01:45 squareyes wrote:
> I have installed a number of ttf fonts on a friends machine.
> I copied them into /usr/share/fonts/truetype , and they are all
> accessible/usable
> by Abiword, Gimp etc. The problem is that he has added 2 users to his
> system (Grand daughters)
> these new fonts show on both, appear in the fonts lists on everything,
> but are not usable.
>
> They show in  /usr/share/fonts/truetype on each user, but have an X
> attached to them.

At a guess:

 You extracted them as a user and then moved them to the appropriate 
directory? Did you make sure to change the owner/permissions on the files so 
that everyone has access to them?


All my fonts (in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/) have the dir permissions of 755, 
and the file permissions of 644, all with the owner:group of root:root - my 
guess is that on your setup, some of those files are not readable by "others" 
(the last octet in the permissions).

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 Stuart Young - aka Cefiar - cef at optus.net