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notos
June 9th, 2005, 01:48 PM
whell i was bored ... so i opened the gimp to make a logo and ... yay i dont have "cool" fonts :( so i go too google and googled for free fonts and started to download files yay! too much files to install manually ... yay!

so with a bit of PHP-Cli i got every font in that web page (1001freefonts.com) so now you too can download 2500+ fonts to your desktop with this :)

First of download Atached File (font.txt.gz ) un gz it with

$ gunzip font.txt.gz

now you ave two options one is use d4x and other is wget

** Download these in a folder like ~/fonts cause you will be downloading 2500 zip files you dont want them in ~/ :P **

for d4x select: file-> Find Links In File and select of course font.txt
then click will apear a list of links simply click ok ;)

if you are a linux guru ... :P or want to use wget

just type

$ wget -i font.txt

now you ve got like 2500 zip files if you dont want to unzip them one by one you can do this

$ for i in *; do unzip -n "$i"; done

after a bit of time you be got tons of files so now you can

$ mv *.ttf ~/.fonts
$ mv *.TTF ~/.fonts

or move them to /usr/share/fonts to install the system wide :)

well i think thats all :)
bored2k
June 9th, 2005, 01:57 PM
I would go nuts if I had to scroll through 2500 fonts.. thanks for the option though :? .
poofyhairguy
June 9th, 2005, 02:24 PM
They all fit in 16kb!!!!
skoal
June 9th, 2005, 02:30 PM
2500 fonts?? wow! I like the cut of your jib. I gotta have more cowbells, and this font collection comes close.

\\//_
UbuWu
June 9th, 2005, 02:50 PM
That's nothing, I have 6760 fonts installed \\:D/ ;-)
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=9883
notos
June 9th, 2005, 10:32 PM
They all fit in 16kb!!!!

actualy the 16kb file is a list of urls to download :) i had to Gzip it because it was like 200kb

That's nothing, I have 6760 fonts installed
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=9883

Wow i didnt know about this ... *Downloads it*
RastaMahata
June 9th, 2005, 11:02 PM
both sets combined make a wonderful collection.. /me downloads

but I still think that ~/.fonts is not the right path to move these files... :S Any suggestions?
skoal
June 9th, 2005, 11:06 PM
That's nothing, I have 6760 fonts installed \\:D/ ;-)

Whoa! That's a lot of cowbells. But still, I need more cowbells...

\\//_
notos
June 10th, 2005, 12:08 AM
both sets combined make a wonderful collection.. /me downloads

but I still think that ~/.fonts is not the right path to move these files... :S Any suggestions?

in my first post you can see /usr/share/fonts
Bramme
June 12th, 2005, 01:01 PM
installed all 2500 fonts too, but when i want to startup Word (crossover office) it takes a while :neutral: ...
So, install them only if you use them!
Xian
June 12th, 2005, 01:03 PM
Heh. Somehow I think I wouldn't use about 2,450 of those. :)
zaxer
June 12th, 2005, 02:02 PM
Great tip!

Thanks!
carney1979
June 18th, 2005, 12:11 AM
My only problem is it now takes Firefox (1.0.4) 90 seconds to boot, but if I move or rename the ~/.fonts folder, it boots in 13 seconds.

Any suggested fixes?

David
notos
June 18th, 2005, 05:36 AM
hi about FIREFOX 13 Secs are too much time even ... what system are you runing? i am runing FireFox 1.0.4 with 2500 font and it loads in 1~3 secs also i have a PIII 533Mhz 256mb ram so it a bit out-of-date but runs ok

also may be i installed forn on system wide dir... but .. i dont think so :(