[ale] Font of Font Wisdom sought

[Brian Pitts]

John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> Thanks to Corel PhotoPaint, I have a _large_ selection of true-type fonts
> on my Lin/Win box, once all accessible from either environment. A couple
> of upgrades seemed to have lost them to view until I re-introduced them to 
> MsWin.
> 
> I'm having more trouble bringing them back on SuSE-9.3. Specifically I
> don't know how to generate the index to use them in OpenOffice, etc. I
> found HOW-TOs, but don't find the index-generating utilities, nor (so far
> as I can see) the TT font server.
> 
> The actual font directories lie in FAT filespace visible to either Linux 
> or MsWin: <shared_dir>/fonts/ttf/[a,b,...]
> 
> Could someone offer pointers or advice to revive my TTFs from Linux?  
> (Packages to install, etc., would be fine.)
> 
> TIA.
>  - Mills 

With Fontconfig, all I've had to do is put the ttf's in ~/.fonts

http://fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html

-Brian