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Submitted by mborn on Tue, 01/03/2005 - 00:11.
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Assalam Alikum,

I would like to know how may I change the arabic fonts to view some arabic web sites. For example, for those who use Fedora Core 3, like me, the default arabic font does not look good at all. I am also having this trouble with another linux distro called "scientific linux" which is mainly for work, so it is not important to busy urslf with. People of Fedora, Please tell me how do u change this ugly font. I have seen better looking on some mandy boxes and I wish I can have these nice looks of arabic on FC3. Right now, I have installed the fonts from a windows machine through the control panel. and did nothing after. Control Panel->System Administration->font installer->Administrative mode (su), then installed the fonts. I hope I am clear this time :)

M B

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hmm Fedora.
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Submitted by Conceptor on Tue, 01/03/2005 - 00:58.

as ex-user of fedora you have 2 ways to add fonts

your windows fonts will be under %systemroot%/fonts windows talks never mind 

chkfontpath -a /ur/path/to_arabicfonts

or edit /etc/X11/fs/confing append your directory which contain the fonts on the list of your directories 

       
/usr/share/fonts/ttf/arabic/arabeyes,
/usr/share/fonts/ttf/arabic/kacst,
/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives,
/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western,
/usr/share/fonts/ttf/arabic,
/usr/share/fonts/ttf/latex,
/my/new/fontdir
#if it will be last directory ensure that you placed the " , " to the previous line .

you may make fonts available to some users but not globally : 

 ln -s /ur/path/to_fonts .fonts

then 

fc-cache

AFAIK you should run this as root.

Did i mention three methods configure it :) .

Diaa Radwan


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also i guess you should edit
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Submitted by ramez.hanna on Wed, 02/03/2005 - 10:40.

also i guess you should edit the /etc/fonts/font.conf file and add < dir >/path/to/arfont< /dir >

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font configuration .
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Submitted by Conceptor on Wed, 02/03/2005 - 15:25.
DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. IT WILL BE REPLACED WHEN FONTCONFIG IS UPDATED.

the problem is adding fonts.

fonts.conf contains configuration information for the fontconfig library consisting of directories to look at for font information as well as instructions on editing program specified font patterns before attempting to match the available fonts.

if you are interested man fontconfig.

Diaa Radwan


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Thanks for the replies
Submitted by mborn on Wed, 02/03/2005 - 22:12.

Thank you very much for the replies,

I have tried to do all the above, but I still can't use a any of the fonts to view arabic sites with a nice and smooth looking. I shall try again and feed you back.

Mr. Diaa, Thank you for the nice atmosphere of your replies...almost the only nice replies I get are those from you :)

Thank you for ur time,

M B

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