I've downloaded mangal.ttf from cghs.nic.in/hindiFont.jsp
and copied it to /usr/share/fonts/TTF
; somehow the system is not able to recognize it (I'm verifying same using LaTeX). Is there any documentation for installing fonts on Linux ?
1 Answer
You can see the documentation here.
To add fonts system-wide, copy the new fonts into the
/usr/share/fonts/
directory. It is a
good idea to create a new subdirectory, such as local/ or similar, to help distinguish between user-installed and default fonts.To add fonts for an individual user, copy the new fonts into the
.fonts/
directory in the user's home directory.Use the
fc-cache
command to update the font information cache, as in the following example:
fc-cache <path-to-font-directory>
In this command, replace <path-to-font-directory>
with the directory containing the new fonts (either /usr/share/fonts/local/
or /home/<user>/.fonts/
).