Is the windows partition mounted?  If not, then this is a duplicate of
bug 1182.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

(In reply to comment #1)
> Is the windows partition mounted?  If not, then this is a duplicate of
> bug 1182.

The Windows partition is mounted, but it is an old Windows 98 partition which I trimmed a lot and removed a lot of stuff because I can no longer boot it (so I'm using it as extra storage).

I thought that what this button does is give me the Microsoft True Type Core Fonts:

http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

The badly named "Get Windows Fonts" button is intended to import the
windows fonts from a mounted windows partition on a dual/multi boot system.

The actual code that searches for those fonts in /usr/sbin/drakfont is

    foreach my $fstab_line (grep { /vfat|smbfs|ntfs|fuse/ } cat_('/etc/mtab')) {                                    
        my $win_dir = (split('\s', $fstab_line))[1];                                                                
        foreach my $sys_dir (grep {  /^win(nt|dows)$/i } all($win_dir)) {                                           
            foreach my $font_dir (grep { /^fonts$/i } map { all($_) } "$win_dir/$sys_dir") {                        
                push @fonts, map { "$win_dir/$sys_dir/$font_dir/$_" } all("$win_dir/$sys_dir/$font_dir");

While I can usually figure out what perl code does, I'm no expert in it. :-)
I'm not sure how it handles upper/lower case.

drakfont does import the windows fonts on my system.

I also have a borked 98 install, as well as an xp install, so I'm not sure which
it's actually importing them from, of if it's importing both.

For xp, the fonts are in /media/win_m/WINDOWS/Fonts
For 98, the fonts are in /media/win_c/windows/fonts

If you have /media/win_c/windows/fonts, try renaming to the xp format, and see
if drakfont will then find them.

Another approach is to manually collect/copy the fonts from various versions of Windows and Office to a central location, and then just "Import" from that location each time.

CC: (none) => ftg

@ Shlomi

I thought that button was to get the MS true type core fonts, too :)

Bug 2639 is a package request for those fonts.

Were the fonts still present on your old Win 98 partition, or weren't they?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => marja11

(In reply to comment #5)
> @ Shlomi
> 
> I thought that button was to get the MS true type core fonts, too :)
> 
> Bug 2639 is a package request for those fonts.
> 
> Were the fonts still present on your old Win 98 partition, or weren't they?

I don't remember, and since then I switched to a different computer with a single Linux-only hard-disk, so it would be hard for me to reproduce it. I think I moved the fonts to a different place, though.

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)

> > Were the fonts still present on your old Win 98 partition, or weren't they?
> 
> I don't remember, and since then I switched to a different computer with a
> single Linux-only hard-disk, so it would be hard for me to reproduce it. I
> think I moved the fonts to a different place, though.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- Shlomi Fish

Well, there doesn't seem to be a reason to keep this bug report open, then. So closing. Feel free to reopen if you disagree :)

Regards,
Marja

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