I have always been a bit of a font addict and love finding new fonts to play around with. Recently I shared with you and received some questions regarding how to install a font onto a computer. Free fonts are certainly not as fun when you don’t yet know how to install them! So today I’m going to share a step-by-step tutorial on how to install fonts on a Mac OSX. If you are a PC-girl (or guy), don’t worry because I’ve got you covered too!
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Hop on over to and Gina will take you through the steps of installing a new font on your PC. Once you see how simple it is to install new fonts, you might just turn into a font addict too! I should also point out that this process takes much longer to write about and outline in a step-by-step post than it does to implement in real life. You can install a bunch of fonts in a minute or two once you know how! Step 1: Google search the term “free fonts” to find a font site that contains fonts you would like to download to your computer. Please note: Take caution when downloading items to your computer.
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Some sites may not be safe so download at your own risk. In the screenshot below you can see that I have pulled up some fonts on the site fontsquirrel.com. To begin downloading the font I click on “Download TTF” or “Download OTF”. All font files will be a.ttf or.otf file.
For the purpose of this example, I have downloaded the “UglyQua” font. Step: 2 After you install your font you will see it located in your downloads file as a zip file. Double click on the zip file to open it. Step 3: Once you double click on your downloaded font zip file your Downloads folder will automatically open (beneath your browser–so minimize your internet screen to see it). Click on the font file folder to open it.
Step 4: Once you open the font file folder you will see the license for the font in a text (.txt) document and then the actual font(s) as the.ttf or.otf files. Click on the font file (.ttf or.otf) to open the font in the Font Book. Step 5: The font is now open and ready to be installed. Click on “Install Font”. Note that some fonts don’t convert to Mac and an error screen will pop up warning you that the font has errors before you install. Step 6: The font will show up in your Font Book. Congratulations! You installed your font! And that is all there is to it!
Your Mac will do most of the work for you and all you have to do is simply know which words to click on. If you follow these steps (and are on a Mac OSX then you shouldn’t have any problems. To get you going with your new-found superpower, I recommend looking for free fonts at dafont.com, and fontsquirrel.com.
I'm trying to get ghostscript to render a pdf file from a Windows box. The pdf file uses the ComicSansMS font. I've copied the comic.ttf file from my Windows7 box into my /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts directory, and I've created a Fontmap file in that same directory containing this line: /ComicSansMS (comic.ttf); As nearly as I can tell, the font is not being found despite this. The text comes out very poorly, and some of the smaller font sizes are rendered half the size they should be.
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Access times and strace show that the Fontmap file is being read, but the font file (comic.ttf) is not being accessed at all. There are no error messages: hope 78$ gs cards-01.pdf GPL Ghostscript 9.00 (2010-09-14) Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Processing pages 1 through 1. Page 1 showpage, press to continueshowpage, press to continue. I assume that PDF does not have the ComicSansMS font embedded? You should consider 2 other possibilities as well:. Your PDF file card-01.pdf is somehow corrupted. (Are other PDF viewers rendering that file without a problem?
Does it display OK in Acrobat Reader on Widnows?). Your fontfile comic.ttf is somehow corrupted. The PDF file is definitely fine. I can read it without trouble in Acrobat Reader, both on Windows and Macintosh.
As for the comic.ttf file, I don't know whether it's corrupted, but I'm fairly sure it's irrelevent, since the file isn't being opened at all. I made sure the filesystem was mounted with strictatime option, and the access time isn't being changed. Also, I ran ghostscript under strace, and I can see the Fontmap file being opened, but ghostscript never accesses the font file. I tried the command you suggested, and it does appear to work, outputting comic-ttf.pdf without error.
– Jan 22 '11 at 2:19. I came back to this problem after a delay. Upon further investigation with a magnifying glass, the problem is different from what I initially thought. Text is definitely being rendered incorrectly in parts of the document. Each letter is far too small, though the spacing is oddly correct. However, the individual letters are the correct shape for the font.
The font on disk is not being accessed, but that's because the fonts are all embedded within the document. This fact would probably have been obvious to a Ghostscript expert from the output I posted in the original question (I'm guessing the 'HYLUQF+' prefix is the smoking gun there), but I don't work with Ghostscript much. My fonts were installed correctly, and other documents were able to access them without trouble. Of course, this still leaves the question of why my embedded fonts are being rendered incorrectly, but I will investigate that separately and/or post a different question. I maintain that the PDF file is uncorrupted (I have several other PDFs which exhibit the same problem), but I still don't know what's wrong. @pipitas: Thanks very much for trying. You certainly did help verify that my installed fonts are not the problem.
Actually, now that I look again, you even gently suggested the font might be embedded, but I either didn't see it, didn't believe it, or didn't know how to check.