Looking for true type fonts

Joseph T. Tannenbaum tannenba@futureone.com
Sat, 30 Sep 2000 08:00:47 -0700


A good supply of TTF is on a Winanthing disc.  Most
of the windows versions have lots of TTF.
Joe

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> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of
> der.hans
> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 3:21 AM
> To: PLUG
> Subject: Re: Looking for true type fonts
>
>
> Am 29. Sep, 2000 schwäzte Rick Rosinski so:
>
> > I have been looking for free true-type fonts, and I have found
> > many web sites out there.  The one thing that they have in
> > common is that they have them all listed *individually*, and not
> > one of them (that I have found so far) have all fonts in one big
>
> Do you mind making a listing of all of them and passing that along to the
> list? I haven't found too many (haven't looked real hard either), but am
> getting ready to restart my Xserver (it's been up almost 300 days) and
> want to add true type fonts as well as take advantage of the hints from a
> fellow RedHat engineer that Kevin pointed us at.
>
> > file that I can just download and extract.  Plus, most of the ones
> > I have found are *.zip files, and the unzip command doesn't seem
> > to accept a command like "unzip /fonts/*".  it says - for each file -
> > caution:  filename not matched: /fonts/whatever.zip, and nothing
> > gets extracted.
>
> for i in fonts/*zip
> do
> 	unzip $i
> done
>
> That'll grab everything that fits fonts/*zip and loop through hitting
> unzip with one filename at a time. Replace "fonts/*zip" with commands in
> backticks, e.g. `find / -name "*.conf"`, and use other commands like "rm
> -f $i" for hours of entertainment ;-). [1][2]
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
> [1] No, don't run this. It'll ruin your day :).
> [2] In the case of find it's easier to do the whole thing with find. 'find
> / -name "*.conf" -exec rm -f {} \;", but again don't run this :).
>
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