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How to use fonts on ubuntu linux ?

Can you be more specific? I'm not sure I understand

I want to use supertuxkart's fonts in order to write some text

Fonts are stored as images as far as I know. You can get them here.

openfontlibrary seems to be temporarily down at this time; when it's back up, simply download font "Layne hansom"

Or, maybe rather my remix of the Layne Hansom font, since I made more characters for the font myself and uploaded onto OpenFontLibrary.

Yes, but I don't know how using it it's not like true type fonts or type1 ?

Is it possible to get Supertuxkart truetype font ?

I don't have it on my disk.

http://www.openfontlibrary.org/ has it, but it is in renovation. Please be patient

ok, thanks for the tips

Can you specify the name of font, please ?

The font is layne hansom

There it is , now

Where did you find it?

I contacted openfontlibrary mailing list, they told me that I can find it threre :

http://understandingfonts.com/dump/2011/PhaistosDisk/

OK, thanks for the information. Sadly, I cannot find my own version of this font there - I added a lot of extra characters like ĝ, Ĩ etc. And I can't find it on either of my hard disks yet... currently waiting for a USB case so I can try an old, dying hard disk that I used at the time. Hopefully I'll find my version there. If not, I'll have to ask the OpenFontLibrary if they happen to have a backup somewhere.

So kids, make sure that you not only back up regularly (which I try to do), but make sure you include all important files as well.

Arthur {l Wrote}:So kids, make sure that you not only back up regularly (which I try to do), but make sure you include all important files as well.

That's one reason why we are maintaining the media repository - so that all original media files can be preserved! So if you do any modifications to a font, please put it in the fonts directory of the media repository.

Hope you will be able to find your original files again!

Cheers,
Joerg