#Windows 7 how to install ttf font windows#

The structure of the Fontconfig configuration matrix means that there are large numbers of ways to introduce extra paths. It would be wonderful if this were true, but of course it is not. There are supposed to be just two places for Fontconfig to find then cache a font, depending on whether you want every user to have access to it (global) or just one (local): Hah! Do you really think that it is going to be that easy? Well, maybe.

So, there are only two steps necessary to manually add a font to Linux.

~/.local/share/fonts (local access only ~/.fonts/ is deprecated)įontconfig needs to cache the contents & make them accessible to programs.There are two locations where Fontconfig expects to locate font-files:– There are many aspects (such as always replacing a call for one font with supply of a different font) NOT dealt with here. You will never deal with it directly, but instead may use one of many small Apps directly related to it. ( remote) (local): file:///usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html (Devuan-3) FontConfigįontconfig-2.13.1 is the system/binary that controls all modern aspects of font maintenance & usage. Not So Easy: Install By HandĪrch-Linux::Fontconfig : Font configuration Use standard techniques to install (I use Synaptic). Very useful, especially if you distribute files between Linux & M$.

#Windows 7 how to install ttf font windows#

Microsoft (M$) have open-sourced all the fonts available in their original versions of Windows (11 fonts in 30 versions). Ttf-mscorefonts-installer is a classic example.

The Easy Way: if available, use your distro Repository.

There are two ways to do this under Linux, only one of which (the 2nd) applies to your situation: Therefore, to “Add fonts to LO”, what you need to do is to “Add fonts to the OS”. LibreOffice uses the fonts that the Operating System (OS) tells it are available for use.

put ttf-file in Fontconfig-recognised dir.