Bug 84235 - TTF fonts are not used
Summary: TTF fonts are not used
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: distribution
Version: 8.0
Hardware: athlon
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-02-13 18:13 UTC by bIRDIE
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-02-13 21:31:10 UTC

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Description bIRDIE 2003-02-13 18:13:30 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs-CZ; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

Description of problem:
Installed did not used my TTF fonts on my Windows partition

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Install RH on a computer with existing Windows installation
    

Actual Results:  No TTF fonts are used

Expected Results:  It would be nice (especially with bad quality of default
fonts) to use TTF font found on existing windows partition under windows/fonts
directory (copied to the /usr/shared/fonts/ttf) in X-server

Additional info:
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-02-13 21:31:10 UTC 
This has been considered in the past, but decided against due to possible 
legal/technical issues.
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