Thursday, December 27, 2007

Viewing Hindi fonts on linux

Facing problems while reading Hindi in your Linux??? well solution is real simple its in only 5 easy steps.

1. Download raghu.ttf from here

2. put raghu.ttf in /usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF if it do not exist the create one.

3.run these commands in above directory
3.1 ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale
3.2 mkfontdir

4.check whether above directory is in /etc/X11/fs/config file under catalogue section, if not put that path there.

5.Restart x-window system.

Hindi is on your system now. If you face any problems contact me

Enjoy!!!!

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