1 Installing GNU FreeFont 2 ======================= 3 4GNU FreeFont can be used in any modern operating system. 5 6This document explains how to install FreeFont on some common systems. 7 8UNIX/GNU/Linux/BSD Systems 9-------------------------- 10 11FreeFont works with any system using the free font rasterizer FreeType 12<http://www.freetype.org/>. Some features such as glyph substitution and 13positioning may be handled by the text layout library 14Pango <http://www.pango.org/>. 15 16Most recent systems using FreeType2 and Pango handle OpenType fonts well, 17but on older systems TrueType may perform better. 18 19* Debian GNU/Linux 20 21Users of Debian GNU/Linux system will probably want to use the Debian package, 22named 'ttf-freefont', available from the Debian Linux site. 23 24Install the fonts by issuing the command 25 apt-get install ttf-freefont 26 27 28* KDE local installation 29 30Users of KDE can install .ttf files on a per-user basis using the KDE 31Control Center module "kcmfontinst", which may appear in the menu as 32 33 Settings -> System Administration -> Font Installer 34 35This is especially helpful for developers and testers. 36 37 38* Generic X Window systems 39 40 1) Fetch the freefont-ttf.tar.gz package with Free UCS outline fonts 41 in the TrueType format. 42 43 2) Unpack TrueType fonts into a suitable directory, 44 e.g. /usr/local/share/fonts/default/TrueType/ 45 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/. 49 50 In some systems, you list the directory in the item "catalogue=" 51 in the file /etc/X11/fs/config. 52 53 4) Run ttmkfdir in the directory where you unpacked the fonts. 54 55 56Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP; Vista/7 57------------------------------------------- 58 59Note that in at least Windows 7, Vista, XP and 2000, the TrueType versions 60perform much better than, and are recommended over, the OpenType ones. 61 62For good font smoothing in Windows, Microsoft ClearType must be enabled. 63The native Windows web browser must be used to install, enable, and configure 64ClearType. A web search for "ClearType Tuner" will find the proper web pages. 65Recent versions of the browser raise a security block (a yellow bar at the 66top of the window), which you must act upon to allow installation. A 67checkbox in the window turns ClearType on (in Win-speek, "Turn on ClearType"). 68The change happens immediately. 69 70* Vista, Windows 7: 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" 75 a) Click Continue 76 77* 95/98/NT: 78 The font installation is similar to Vista. 79 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 82 the Adobe web site. 83 84 Otherwise, use the TrueType versions. 85 86Apple Mac OS X 87-------------- 88 89Support for OpenType on MacOS X started with OS 10.4, and has been improved 90gradually in later versions. 91 92Installing on Mac OS X consists of moving the font files to either 93 /Library/Fonts/ or ~/Library/Fonts/ 94depending on whether they should be available to all users on your system 95or just to your own user. 96 97-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 98$Id: INSTALL,v 1.11 2011-06-12 07:14:12 Stevan_White Exp $ 99