| Lohit Project Information :- |
| See https://fedorahosted.org/lohit/ for more details. |
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| Mailing list:- |
| http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/lohit-devel-list |
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| Generating ttf from source file: |
| Note: If you have downloaded ttf tarball this step is not required. |
| 1. Building ttf file with fontforge. |
| - Open .sfd file in Fontforge. |
| - Import .fea file using (File->Merge Feature Info) |
| - File-> Generate fonts. |
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| 2. Using Makefile (Recommended) |
| - In terminal change directory to lohit downloaded tarball and run |
| - $make ttf |
| - This will generate ttf. |
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| 3. Building webfonts |
| - Fedora users -> $yum install sfntly |
| - Check if your distro has sfntly, if not Download sfntly for building web fonts. |
| - Download "sfntly-read-only.zip" from http://code.google.com/p/sfntly/downloads/list |
| - Go to java folder and run $ant |
| - Copy sfnttool.jar to /usr/share/java/ |
| - $make woff eot |
| - This will generate webfonts. |
| 4. $make all will generate all binaries. |
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| Installing fonts: |
| Fedora or other linux distro |
| 1. Using graphics user interface |
| - open ttf using gnome-font-viewer or kfontview |
| - click on install fonts |
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| 2. Using terminal |
| - copy font to /~.local/share/fonts |
| - run $fc-cache |
| - open gedit, it should be listed now |
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| Windows |
| 1. Nicely documented on http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows-vista/install-or-uninstall-fonts |
