Malayalam Font

Sunday, 10 April 2011 10:17

Click here to download AnjaliOldLipi unicode font

Font installation and setup in Windows

Download AnjaliOldLipi font and copy it. Then, goto Controlpanel open fonts folder and paste AnjaliOldLipi font.

AnjaliOldLipi font installation and setup in linux

OPTION – 1

Create a directory for meera font, say, /usr/local/share/fonts/ttfanjali

mkdir /usr/local/share/fonts/ttfanjali

cp AnjaliOldLipi.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts/ttfanjali

ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale

cd /usr/local/share/fonts/ttfanjali

head -1 fonts.scale > fonts.dir

tail +2 fonts.scale | tac >> fonts.dir

cp fonts.dir fonts.scale

xset +fp /usr/local/share/fonts/ttfanjali

To verify that the font is installed properly,

xset q

xfontsel

OPTION – 2

If you are using a KDE desktop, start the 'KDE Control Centre'. Under 'System Administration', there is a 'Font Installer' utility. Switch to the Admin mode to install the new font from the font installer.