Re: Culmus Hebrew fnts

On 8/4/05, hermanmeester <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Dotan,
> 
> I would like to ask you to get me those fonts, but now I'm even more puzzled.
> All my fonts work perfectly (even Persian, Korean...), except all the Hebrew fonts that I installed: these just don't come out as they should (only the hebrew fonts that were already there from the start function well).
> So I think I could not install your fonts either.
> 
> I think my system has a problem with the way Openoffice handles any newly imported hebrew fonts. I'll just have to give it up until I update my whole system.
> I may or may not have created the problem myself ^^
> 
> About the hebrew fonts that look good in both Hebrew and English;
> Did you install the Culmus fonts? Maybe it looks traditional, but I think Frank Ruehl's Hebrew and western fonts of Culmus is not so bad. And I liked the Nachlieli. Do you also have freesans.ttf (truetype)? The western letters of that one look very "sans"ish, maybe minimalistic, but so far I have to use only those. The freeserif.ttf look so biblical that you just can't use it, it's as if someone grafted them by hand in a piece of stone ^^.
> If you like a retro feel, try the freemono.ttf and make them all bold, you'd have a very inky typewriter (If it's not bold it looks not good).
> 
> Anyway if anyone would know anything specific relating to hebrew fonts, and the configuration for OOo, I'd always be interested.
> 
> Thanks, & regards
> herman

Herman,
I just installed the Culmus fonts. So far everything is working,
including Open Office. I downloaded the tar.gz, unpacked it, and mv'ed
it into /usr/share/fonts. Thats all, no restart nor logout. If you
installed by rpm, this may be your trouble. Note that this is a suse
list, and I did this on a FC4 machine, but I think that it is still
relevent enough to continue on-list, as information on hebrew fonts in
general is hard to come by, and the archives need it! If suse keeps
the fonts in a different directory, please say so for the archives
sake.

I don't know if freesans or freeserif supposed to be in Cumlus, but I
didn't get them. If you want to send them to me, I'll see how it works
for me and report back.

Dotan Cohen
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