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18 Apr 2024 14:57:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Using Windows fonts in Linux Mint  
From: Harald Jörg
Date: 12 Oct 2018 10:59:41
Message: <87woqni52b.fsf@posteo.de>
"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> writes:

>> The ttf files are located under /<your_mountpoint>/windows/fonts.
>> Add that to your libaries and you should be able to use them.
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> haj
>
> Thanks Haj,
>
> Yes, that sounds like it ought to work.   I'm on the beginning of the learning
> curve using qtPOV-Ray in Mint, so I don't no where to go to edit the library
> path.
>
> home?  bin?  usr?  etc?  :|

I admit that I don't know anything about qtPOV-Ray.  For my plain old
POV-Ray 3.7 on Debian I have a file /etc/povray/3.7/povray.ini which
contains some library paths:

  Library_Path="/usr/share/povray-3.7"
  Library_Path="/usr/share/povray-3.7/ini"
  Library_Path="/usr/share/povray-3.7/include"

You can also add user specific paths in $HOME/.povray/3.7/povray.ini
without root privileges.

> It's also been far too long since I tended a Unix box, and can't remember how to
> search the directory tree for a filename, etc....

That might be slightly beyond the scope of this list :) Anyway, the file
manager on Linux desktops is very similar to the Windows Explorer.  From
the command line, one example seems to be ok:

   $ find /windata/                  -name "*.ttf"
          ^where to start searching        ^what to search
-- 
Cheers,
haj


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