[Klug-general] TTFs under SUSE

[Dan Attwood]

Have you tried Kubuntu?
Ubuntu played nice with my scanner and there's the Automatix script that
will install windows fonts for you.
I'm an ex Mandriva user and definently feel like i've found a new home with
Ubuntu and it's dirvatives.

Dan

On 27/06/06, Michael. E. Rentell <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> G'day again all,
>
> Thanks for all the advice, to everyone - much appreciated. Er
> unfortunately I hav found other problems too with SUSE. So I tried Fedora
> Core 5 but that would not write a bootstrap starter at all, not even to a
> diskette, so I've junked that too. So I am back to square one with a
> perfectly working Mandriva 2005LE. Everything works under that, SCSI
> scanner, videos, Seamonkey etc etc.
>
> It is just that it is a bit old. Never mind I suppose I will just stick
> with it until Mandriva 2007LE comes out and see if that will address my
> scanner (2006LE won't under any circumstances that I can configure).
>
> I suppose I could always try Berry Linux from Japan. They say that is well
> set-up for the office user - sorry I'm not too much of a clued-up fundi.
> Just a user. Anyone else tried Berry Linux?
>
> Mike R in Folkestone.
>
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> If you go to Yast and then Software Updates there is an optional patch
> to install Microsoft True Type Core Fonts. Would this do the trick?
>
> James
>
>
> On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 11:22 +0100, Michael. E. Rentell wrote:
>
> > > Good morning all,
> > > Having become disenchanted with Mandriva 2006 (won't see scanner), I
> > > have now installed SUSE 10.1 which seems most impressive, at least it
> > > installed my scanner with no difficulty.
> > >
> > > However, nothing is ever perfect. Mandrake/driva had a facility to
> > > import windows ttf fonts into KDE and make them available for all the
> > > applications. I particularly want ttf arial and times for use in
> > > Scribus. SUSE seems very coy about showing how that might happen. I
> > > haven't found a simple tool, like the one in mdk.
> > >
> > > Anyone got any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Ta.
> > >
> > > Mike Rentell
> > > in Folkestone (someone regularly using Linux for business)
> > >
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