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Operating Systems Linux How do we change the default font on Linux system? Post 303042408 by Neo on Monday 23rd of December 2019 11:25:32 PM

12-24-2019

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So in summary, if you don't mind: you installed a font which you did not know the font family (or the basics of font management).

Because you installed a font with knowing the font family, you did not have the information required to update your fonts.conf file to specify the font family for the new default in the configuration file. In addition, you had a lot of initial errors in your configuration because you copies from another server.

In my view, you should hone your trouble shooting and system admin skills. When you are installing or configuration something, you should read the error and status messages very carefully (as I did in your posts) and work to fix those errors before asking "why something does not work or not". Relevant or not to the immediate task at hand, as a sys admin you should understand fix these errors. The developers of software take a lot of time to create code which traps errors and outputs status messages to help users. Those messages are important and critical for system admin. If you have errors, fix them. Everything is relevant. Details matter. If you ever write code, getting the code to work is "one thing". Trapping all the possible errors and outputting error and status messages for "other users" can take more time than the original code. These messages are your friend and are free.

In my view, you have 1000 or so posts here at unix.com. This should have been easy for you to solve on your own. You did not really need my help. You could have copied the fonts over, fixed the obvious errors and then googled on how to change the default system font for CentOS. You would have seen that you can change the default, as I did, by editing font.conf.

Anyway, glad you solved it and glad to help you think though this. Hopefully, this discussion will help others who have similar issues in the future.

Live long and prosper.

Neo

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imagepsslantfont

IMAGEPSSLANTFONT(3)							 1						       IMAGEPSSLANTFONT(3)

imagepsslantfont - Slant a font

SYNOPSIS

       bool imagepsslantfont (resource	$font_index, float  $slant)

DESCRIPTION

	Slant a given font given.

PARAMETERS

	      o $font_index
		- A font resource, returned by imagepsloadfont(3).

	      o $slant
		- Slant level.

RETURN VALUES

	Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

EXAMPLES

       Example #1

	      imagepsslantfont(3) example

	      <?php
	      // Load a .pfb font file
	      $font = imagepsloadfont('./px3l.pfb');

	      // Slant the font by 22.5
	      imagepsslantfont($font, 22.5);

	      // Do any operations with the font here

	      // Free the font from memory
	      imagepsfreefont($font);
	      ?>

CHANGELOG

       +--------+---------------------------------------------------+
       |Version |						    |
       |	|						    |
       |	|		     Description		    |
       |	|						    |
       +--------+---------------------------------------------------+
       | 7.0.0	|						    |
       |	|						    |
       |	|  T1Lib support was removed from PHP, thrus remov- |
       |	| ing this function.				    |
       |	|						    |
       +--------+---------------------------------------------------+
NOTES

       Note

	      This function is only available if PHP is compiled using --with-t1lib[=DIR].

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