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Submitted by mborn on Sat, 19/06/2004 - 04:27.
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Peace!

I want to know how may I add a font to my RH 9.0? It is easy on mandrake, but not on RedHat 9.0!

It is because I have installed adobe reader to my RH 9.0 and when initiating it, it said, charset UTF-8 is not supported and tried to use another font, what should I do?

Max

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Hello,Problem of adobe is
Submitted by snefro on Sat, 19/06/2004 - 23:54.

Hello,

Problem of adobe is not about the fonts. It's about this utf-8 or LANG.

To run acrobat reader from the shell:

export LANG=""

/usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread &

Regarding the font installation on Redhat, there is two font subsystms. Fontconfig, and xfs. xfs ~ 15 years old, and is planned to be replaced by Fontconfig.

Anyway, to configure fonts for Fontconfig:

fc-cache font-path

Individual users may also install fonts graphically, by browsing to fonts:/// in Nautilus, and dragging the new font files there.

adding font for xfs requires more steps:

mkdir /usr/share/fonts/local/

mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/local/

chkfontpath --add /usr/share/fonts/local/

ttmkfdir -d /usr/share/fonts/local/ -o /usr/share/fonts/local/fonts.scale

service xfs reload

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acrobat??
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Submitted by Alaa on Sun, 20/06/2004 - 06:10.

why would anyone use acrobat reader instead of Xpdf or GhostView??

both never gave me trouble with arabic PDFs

cheers, Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net

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Yes,You are right! I myself u
Submitted by mborn on Sun, 20/06/2004 - 16:55.

Yes,You are right! I myself use kghostview more than you may immagine!!! All my papers, my work and my everything is written in Latex, then I convert it to either PDF or PS :) But one should know about other alternatives in case he may need them. Also, how would this question of fonts have ocured to me without a try. Last, People have different tastes :)

Max

PS. I hope spaces and new lines will appear this time (يارب)

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Hay! What about scrolling th
Submitted by mborn on Mon, 21/06/2004 - 05:17.

Hay! What about scrolling the pages of a document. I like to have them scorlled continously and it is not available in both xpdf and kghost view!

Max

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