Adding Windows fonts to linux

Well.. I am doing my new TV ad and a shirt logo and the font I wanted was on my old windows box.
So here's how to add True Type fonts to your linux box

First.. copy the TTF files you want to add - I used a flash drive, but you can use any method you want.

Go to /usr/share/fonts/truetype

Create a folder there for your fonts - you can name it anything you want. Copy all your .ttf files in there.

Open a terminal window and navigate to your new folder.

You need to change the permissions. I did it from the file manager, then selecting all my new fonts, rt clicking and changing permissions that way. Or if your a command line person do this:

chown root.root *.ttf

chmod 644 *.ttf

Now from the terminal run mkfontdir

Now move back to the parent directory and find a file named fonts.cache-1. Open it with your favorite editor and at the bottom of the list add your new directory to the list

"your_folder_name" 0 ".dir"

Now you want linux to index your new fonts. So run this command from your font directory: fc-cache

Thats it!! Firefox, OpenOffice and other programs can now use any font you added