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- crapmatic, on 10/31/2007, -2/+43That's nice and all, but once you've tasted Comic Sans you'll never go back.
- BryanJK, on 10/30/2007, -0/+32Reminds me of the guy who made all of the web cam drivers by himself.
Nice people. - Dankoozy, on 10/14/2007, -3/+26only works on ubuntu?
- sirhomer, on 10/30/2007, -0/+17A .deb file is just a gziped archive (with some extra metadata for package management). Anyone can extract these ttf fonts into their font directory on any distro (usually to "/usr/local/fonts"). Then you type "fc-cache" in terminal and volia, fonts on any distro.
- djmdave, on 10/14/2007, -2/+12for non debian distros, you can use this:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/corenominal/ubuntu/pool/m ...
apparently licensed under artistic, so they are Free™, and i believe this is the artist's website:
http://www.aenigmafonts.com/ - EdgeOfEpsilon, on 10/23/2007, -1/+8You forgot the "Repeat 464 times." step. Just wanted to make sure your walk-through is as comprehensive as the one for Ubuntu!
And, of course, you forgot the fact that you don't need Vista to do that. Works fine on XP or 2000. - woodcoxcb, on 10/14/2007, -0/+7brian MADE them. he can tell you what to do with them.
- stray, on 10/30/2007, -0/+7It's far better to have twenty really top-notch fonts, with perfect kerning and spacing, than three or four hundred poorly-made fonts you'll probably never use.
- kinghajj, on 10/14/2007, -0/+6Yes, security is just so ridiculous. Let all the users of the system install whatever they want! And let them remove anything, too.
Editing the sources.list file isn't hard, and gaining root access is as easy as typing "sudo." If you want, you can configure sudo to work without typing a password. - justinjstark, on 10/30/2007, -0/+5465 free fonts is great. But, I really wish ubuntu would come loaded with about 10 great fonts rather than 50 mediocre ones.
- centauri, on 10/15/2007, -0/+5yeah, and canonical makes soooo much money from advertising ubuntu.
- HHP2K, on 10/30/2007, -1/+6It's based on opinion. Ubuntu can do a lot of things, but it can't read your mind.
- woodcoxcb, on 10/14/2007, -1/+6not just ubuntu...
get them for any OS that supports TTF right here: http://ppa.launchpad.net/corenominal/ubuntu/pool/m ... - turpenine, on 10/14/2007, -2/+7that pack works in osx too, and it looks like this when you open them all at once (on an ibook g4)
http://becomearobot.com/Picture%204.png - stalefries, on 10/15/2007, -1/+5Just to spite you, I buried your submission as spam.
- slipdisc2, on 10/30/2007, -0/+4Wow, free fonts? Now thats an earth breaking development.
- inactive, on 10/30/2007, -1/+5:( i wanted 467
- skunkman62, on 10/14/2007, -1/+5you are such a tool
- anagoge, on 10/14/2007, -0/+4www.dafont.com is all you need.
- MrSunshine, on 10/30/2007, -0/+3Judging from the samples, they are nowhere as usable as Helvetica or DIN 1451.
- HHP2K, on 10/14/2007, -0/+3We edit the sources list so that when future updates come out, we can be notified of them and have them installed. That level of convenience doesn't happen on Windows.
- srg13, on 10/14/2007, -1/+4Well, the packages that this guy made (the main subject of the article) are only for Ubuntu, yes. (although they might work with debian?)
Of course, the fonts themselves could be installed on any operating system. - centauri, on 10/14/2007, -0/+3from my experiience having several thousand fonts installed does slow your system down on linux. But only when you go to list them, or say when gnome boots and searches through all the fonts. The fonts are TTF. But i've only had a couple thousand fonts installed a while ago on my ancient laptop that i used to have. so the performance hit might not be so bad on modern hardware.
- niallabrown, on 10/15/2007, -1/+4Ubuntu is the gateway Distro. Don't knock it people will learn soon enough about all the others. When I first downloaded Linux I thought there was only Mandrake but I learnt later about others and the philosophy. If it wasn't for mandrake I might never have known at all.
- pak314, on 10/30/2007, -0/+33DLET looks like a great font for school reports.
- stepanstas, on 10/14/2007, -2/+4Those are really nice
- mdg149, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2to the digg.com team, can you please add a feature that lets me filter out stuff about fonts from showing up on my front page? thanks. this is lame.
- NedSlider, on 10/18/2007, -0/+2Quote: "to the digg.com team, can you please add a feature that lets me filter out stuff about fonts from showing up on my front page? thanks. this is lame."
How about filtering out stuff mentioning "Ubuntu" that really should mention "Linux" or has Ubuntu become an urban synonym for Linux now? I've got nothing against the distro, really, but when 9/10 front page stories are Ubuntu it gets a bit much. - zerblat, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2Actually, deb files are ar archives containing a couple of gzipped tar archives: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_(file_format)
- arjie, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2Well, if you want to install anything you have to have admin access. The "edit sources.list" way is the fastest to describe, so it's always mentioned. Otherwise, one could just add it to the repository list in Synaptic. See, the instructions for Synaptic would be to open Synaptic, then Settings » Repositories » Third-party software » Add...
Then you paste in the repository.
Alternatively, if you don't want the power of automatic upgrades, just download the .deb, double-click, grant admin power, and that's it. Also, with Gutsy, there's this apt:// protocol thing where the fellow on the website just has to put that up and then you just click that and grant permissions and magic happens. - stepanstas, on 10/14/2007, -2/+4Yea, but they only focus on Ubuntu
Unfortunately its hard to advertise distros if you make no money from them. ;-) - oneoverzero, on 10/14/2007, -0/+2Well that was foolish.
- MrSunshine, on 10/23/2007, -1/+3You can tell Windows to install all the fonts found in a folder at once.
- Markpdotcom, on 10/14/2007, -0/+2Have you extracted them? Are they TTF or OTF? I'm sure windows/mac peeps would love these too.
Do fonts slow down linux as they do on windows machines? - jbus, on 10/14/2007, -0/+2Direct link to the deb for ubuntu users that don't want to use the repository:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/corenominal/ubuntu/pool/m ... - andycr512, on 10/23/2007, -0/+1Open root file browser at /usr/share/fonts, open root file browser where you saved fonts, drag and drop from where you saved them to the fonts folder. Wow, that was hard, and it took forever.
- lonniebiz, on 10/14/2007, -0/+1Will having this many fonts slow down certain applications?
I once included a lot of fonts on Windows, and it slowed down how fast certain applications loaded, because those applications had to load fonts it seemed. Has anyone experienced this in Ubuntu? Is this going to make the Gimp come up slow? - woodcoxcb, on 10/14/2007, -1/+2That server's kinda slow too, so I uploaded them to mine... you can get 'em at http://www.roxx0rz.com/files/brian_kent_font_pack. ...
- melve, on 10/14/2007, -0/+1I think he's saying there should be an easier way to install and manage fonts on a per-user basis, rather than system-wide (which definitely should require root access). Actually this already exists. You can just drop the fonts in the ".fonts" folder in your home folder and they'll be available. In Gnome I think you have to re-login before they're visible.
Ubuntu could use some better font management tools though. Something that would allow you to selectively enable fonts as you need them, organize them into categories, hide foreign language fonts that you don't need from font selection dialogs, etc. It's fairly easy to install new fonts, but once you have a lot of them installed there's no good way of organizing them. - mdg149, on 10/14/2007, -0/+1What about OS/2? Do they work on OS/2? I've been looking everywhere for some new OS/2 fonts!
- int19h, on 10/31/2007, -0/+11. Create a folder in your home directory named ".fonts"
2. Copy the fonts to that directory
How in the world did you manage to bork your computer by doing that? - mrgono3, on 10/14/2007, -0/+1windows:
http://picpaste.com/fonts.PNG
for some reason it stops at 271 and explorer goes on vacation. i have 2 gigs of ram and a dual 3.20 processor - xptweakerntn, on 10/15/2007, -1/+2Only need one font in Ubuntu, that is Liberation:
http://www.techystuff.info/?p=65 - p858snake, on 10/14/2007, -0/+1Some of them arn't ubuntu-specific, i've got some of them on my computer (which is running M.S. XP)
- HHP2K, on 10/14/2007, -0/+1Surprise surprise, because the whole world isn't actually black and white!
- HHP2K, on 10/14/2007, -0/+1That's really funny.
- BHSPitMonkey, on 10/14/2007, -0/+1I'm infatuated with that last one on the page (Xtrusion) for some reason.
- centauri, on 10/14/2007, -1/+1Not entirely true... But hey, you're right that ubuntu itself is free. But its ok to ignore all the closed-source-for-profit stuff out there written for linux. I know its hard to accept, but ubuntu can run these non-free programs, and *GHASP* ubuntu isnt the most *free(as in speech)* distribution out there.
- IceZZ, on 10/23/2007, -1/+1Hey, give the guy a break, this is open-source we are talking about here. It's not leading edge.
- Spr0k3t, on 10/14/2007, -1/+1Stop spamming.
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