Questions related to the management, installation and removal of fonts.
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Can I override fonts installed by ttf-mscorefonts-installer, prefer Liberation fonts?
I had to apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer on Ubuntu 12.04/12.10. The short version is I need to pipe PDF files out of an application that requires these fonts for certain glyphs.
The ...
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How to use Fixedsys in the Gnome Terminal, or wherever monospaced fonts are required
I think that the Fixedsys font is one of the most legible monospaced fonts for programming. It has zero antialiasing, with vertical lines mostly 2 pixels wide. Close to ideal for current monitor dot ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Gnome Shell Title Bar Fonts [closed]
The font in my 12.10 Gnome Shell title bar is displaying some characters incorrectly (see snapshot).
This behavior happened once before, but logging back in fixed it.
I installed some xfonts in ...
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How can I force ubuntu to use font A instead font B in all applications and web pages?
i am new in linux, my question simply is: how i can force ubuntu to use font A instead font B in all application and web page?
for example there is a web page that uses Tahoma Font, but I want my ...
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PDFs don't render correctly with Firefox and pdf.js
While using Firefox on Windows, pdf.js worked beautifully. It was honestly amazing. But on (K)ubuntu, it fails to render the files - not just some, but any (which is why I'm posting here). For ...
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Fonts in Firefox weird after installing kubuntu-desktop
I've installed KDE with the intentions to try it out, but now, after removing it and going back to Unity, I noticed that the fonts in Firefox are still like in KDE.
How can I revert the font type to ...
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Harf Buzz was implemented?
One of the new features of Gnome 3.6 is the new font render motor HarfBuzz what improve the font quality, HarfBuzz is included with Ubuntu 12.10 with Unity?
That is all
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Is it legal to use fonts downloaded by Winetricks? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it legal to install msttcorefonts package? Is Wine legal?
If I run winetricks then select the default Wine prefix then select install a font, I find some fonts.
Is ...
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How to reset Ubuntu Fonts? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Reset gnome font configuration?
I've just followed some advice on askubuntu and installed gnome-shell over lubuntu. Everything went smooth, apart from the fonts that ...
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How can I bypass this fontconfig warning to edit grub successfully?
I upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10 with no problem. I am trying to edit the grub file, but in the console I get the following message:
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf",
line 9: ...
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How can I keep two different font sizes on two different documents?
I am using Xubuntu and I need to keep document A with font size 8 and B with with font size 12. If I save A with font size 8, this switches the font size to 8 for all the other documents, including B. ...
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How does Ubuntu achieve RGB subpixel rendering for Mono applications?
Distributions in the *Ubuntu ecosystem support proper RGB subpixel rendering in Mono based applications (e.g. Banshee) by default, i.e. out of the box without any additional configuration ...
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How do I port a .FON font to a Linux font?
I like the ProggyClean fonts a lot and would like to see them in my terminal. The "True Type Font" versions aren't great, but the bitmap (raster, *.fon) fonts are excellent. This should be a virtue ...
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oki microline 320 turbo, printing from command line (lpr -P ML320-1TURBO) produces unreadable font
I have to use the oki microline 320 turbo dot matrix printer for many customers. It installs perfectly via the USB cable and selects the foomatic/okiibm driver and foomatic-rip filter.
When ...
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How can I make fonts in the top panel smaller?
I can use Ubuntu Tweak to change font size on the background but I can't change this:
Can anyone help?
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Can I add Ubuntu fonts to website? What are licenses of those?
Basically I would like to use on website a "Norasi" font, that was bundled with Ubuntu, but I cannot find any license. Am I allowed to distribute that font through website? What is its license?
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I can't run graphical programs with sudo (Ubuntu 12.10)
If I try to run a program with GUI (e.g. Nautilus) as root, I'm just getting the following output:
gksu nautilus
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations ...
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What is the “fontconfig” folder in my home ? May I delete it?
I just upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 12.10. In the process, a new folder appeared in my home directory, called "fontconfig". It includes some 24 files with a ".cache-3" extension. This happened ...
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Per user fonts.conf file
In Kubuntu 12.04 using man fonts.conf i read:
~/.fonts.conf is the conventional location for per-user font configuration,
although the actual location is specified in the global fonts.conf file.
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Font has been changed to greek
While a mp4 file the font in all menus, desktop and applications changed to greek and now i dont know how to revert back the changes . I tried using language support but nothing happened and now every ...
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Looks like a font is missing
Nautilus has become like this:
Global menus now have this ugly font.
Any idea why? It looks like an update killed it.
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Ubuntu 12.10: Can't change window title bar font
In Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2, I've tried using Ubuntu Tweak to change the window title bar font, but after it's changed in the application, it's not reflected throughout the system. I've tried different ...
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What is grub2 default font?
what is ubuntu 12.04 grub2 default font? I changed it and don't know what it was to change it back. I have tried many different font and style to no avail.
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How to change the font for a pdf file
I would love to change the default font that comes with a pdf that i have, i would like to pick one from my system font cache: how i can do that ?
I am used with evince but any pdf reader will be ...
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I shrank my font too small, How do I fix this?
I was trying to find the perfect font size and shrank the font to zero. now all the fonts in apps and menus are so tiny the dont even show with zoom. How can I fix this? Ubuntu 12.04 Gnome. I tried ...
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Is it possible to move font blocks in OpenType fonts?
I've received a font and it has all the Cyrillic letters in Latin-1 block, thus replacing phonetic characters. So I have to type "òåñò" to get "тест". Can it be fixed?
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Hebrew points-letters are misplaced in added font after putting the points (voweling). image inside [closed]
I've added fonts to ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 (with .fonts folder in "home").
I can use the fonts, but, while putting points (voweling in Hebrew), the letters get messed up.
Here is a photo-the words in ...
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fonts.conf - use Droid fonts where possible
I want where possible Droid fonts to be used. So i created ~/.fonts.conf with this content:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
...
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Is there any possible way to copy the font-settings that I had when I used Gnome, and use them on Awesome WM?
I've just switched from Gnome to Awesome WM and my font settings disappeared (except the settings from .Xresource, but most of the programs don't use it anyway).
Is there any possible way to copy the ...
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Ugly fonts in 12.10 even with antialiasing turned on
I'm feeling like there's something wrong with font rendering because it looked a lot nicer last time I had Ubuntu running on the same PC (or even from a Live CD).
Is it something wrong with my ...
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How do I change the line spacing in Terminal?
Is it possible to change the line spacing in Terminal, or is there some other app that allows it? I'm moving from the Mac, and its terminal app has this feature which allows line spacing to be ...
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Bold text looks bad in KDE running GTK (gvim) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
There's an issue with an Alpha/Beta Release of Ubuntu, what should I do?
This happens in gvim (vim-gtk package) and also in the vim-gnome package, and also in ...
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myanmar font on firefox at ubuntu didn't work out
I am a new user of ubuntu 12.04 from MYANMAR. I tried to install myanmar font to read the myanmar website but it didn't work out. Please Someone can help me out?
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How to use the new Adobe Source Code Pro font?
Adobe released a new, open source font family called "Source Code Pro" (download here, Slashdot article here). How do I install it?
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How to make Window Title font upper-case?
I would like to know if it is possible to make it so that the window title font in Ubuntu is always displayed as uppercase. For the font I want to use, lowercase does not look nice. Thank you!
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How to install fonts fast and easy?
I need to install more than 100 fonts, so I was wondering if there is an easy way to do this task?
I know you can opening every single one and pressing install font, but installing more then 100 ...
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Why I can't install new fonts in LibreOffice?
I have installed a lot of fonts before, but this time things are really different. I have downloaded some True Type Font (ttf) fonts. Then paste them in the directory
usr/share/fonts
after that ...
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How to use custom fonts for a Wine application?
My windows application needs specialized fonts. The fonts ship with the application so I don't need to download any extra fonts. When I installed the application it automatically installed the fonts ...
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Font rendering problem after accidentally deleting font folder
I accidentally deleted my fonts folder in home/usr/share, then I re-installed dejavu core fonts and ubuntu font family in order to be able to work with my ubuntu again.
Then I started to install ...
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How I can improve the font rendering? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to enable sub pixel hinting?
I want to know if there is a form to improve the rendering of the fonts in Ubuntu 12.04 like in Gnome 2.XX.
Thanks
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What fonts do I need to install for special characters to work?
What fonts do I need to install on Ubuntu in order to see special characters (💋 for example)?
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How to change default foreign language font [closed]
I want to know how to change the default font that is used when inputting a particular language. I use the Khmer language frequently, and the default font installed comes from the fonts-khmeros-core ...
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How to change sample text in font installer
I have several Japanese fonts but do not want to install them all. I would like to preview them before installing.
In icon view I can get a very rough idea of the style of the font as it shows Aa. ...
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Is it possible to use a font in the terminal that isn't monospace
Yeah, so there's the question. I wondered if it was possible to use the Ubuntu font in the terminal. I know how to change the font, but using anything except a monospace font doesn't really work very ...
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Grub Customizer doesn't change image background
I use the latest version of Grub Customizer (3.0.2) and Ubuntu 12.04. On "appearance settings" I changed the background image and the font, but once I reboot the system they don't appear on grub, ...
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TimesNewRoman in LibreOffice [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
LibreOffice missing certain Microsoft fonts
I'm using ubuntu 12.04 32bit. And i need to type texts in Times New Roman. Any ideas how to install TimesNewRoman in ...
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Google chrome doesn't render the fonts properly.
I have attached an image of the badly rendered font.
This started happening after upgrading 12.04 (I was on 10.10 before that). The chrome version is Version 22.0.1229.39 beta. Font for the text ...
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Why xemacs looks like this?
On a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 xemacs looks like this
where as emacs looks like this
Xemacs also produces the following warnings:
Warning: Cannot convert string ...
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Free URW postscript fonts versus TrueType
Ubuntu includes the free commercial URW++ postscript fonts in /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts (from the gsfonts package).
I've seen that the full set are also available in TrueType format (including ...
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Free serif font with clearly distinguishable 0 (zero) character
I'm using gLabels to create some small pieces of paper to give away to people - Just two lines of about 15-20 characters each. One of the important parts of the design is that there are no "o" ("oh") ...
