[cups.development] How to show printer resident fonts in write?

[Hin-Tak Leung]

--- On Thu, 5/1/12, Gurmeet Singh <gurmeet.janjua at yahoo.in> wrote:

> > Well, to use the printer resident fonts (for whatever
> printer) in
> > applications like OOo writer of LibreOffice writer,
> the application must
> > have access to
> > - the metrics of the respective fonts
> > - at least a fake font for display in the
> application's window(s).
> >
> > As you stated in your posts, on Windows you used
> appropriate .ufm files
> > (Unicode Font Metric files) for those resident
> fonts.As I suspect those
> > files are Windows specific, I doubt you can use them
> on your Ubuntu system.
> > Instead you need at least to get suitable metric files
> in Ubuntu.
> >
> > Helge
> >
> 
> Thanks for your Response,
> 
> Ok upto my understanding .ufm is specific to windows only.
> So, say if I am successfull in getting Linux specific fonts
> (assuming .afm). Then can you guide me what would be the
> next step?
> 
> welcome if you kindly post some of keywords for searching
> over the net or any useful link.

Helge is right and I have nothing to add, except I have already given the answers to your latest questions - but I'll repeat: you need to acquire the ttf/otf version of the fonts - not afm - and just put them in your .fonts directory and run fc-cache . Read up on "fontconfig".