Bug 84235 – TTF fonts are not used

Bug 84235 - TTF fonts are not used

Summary:	TTF fonts are not used

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	distribution (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	athlon Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Havoc Pennington
QA Contact:	Brock Organ
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Keywords:	FutureFeature

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Reported:	2003-02-13 13:13 EST by bIRDIE
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:51 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2003-02-13 16:31:10 EST
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Description bIRDIE 2003-02-13 13:13:30 EST

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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

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Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-02-13 16:31:10 EST

This has been considered in the past, but decided against due to possible 
legal/technical issues.

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