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Can we use OpenType fonts shipped with Windows XP instead of Sampige.ttf?

April 26, 2017fonts opentype sampige.ttf shipped Windows XP

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Can we use OpenType fonts shipped with Windows XP instead of Sampige.ttf?

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Below are the Windows XP’s OpenType font names for six of the major Indian Languages Devanagari: Mangal Kannada : Tunga Tamil : Latha Telugu : Gautami Gurumukhi : Raavi Gujarathi : Shruti On Windows do the following Install the above listed fonts and also copy them to %JAVA_HOME%/jre/lib/fonts directory Backup existing font.properties to font.properties.original Copy font.properties.iisc.windows2.0 to font.properties On Linux do the following Copy the above listed fonts to $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/fonts directory Go to Java’s font directory cd $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/fonts Note: $JAVA_HOME should be set when you install JDK or JRE Take a backup of existing fonts.dir file cp fonts.dir fonts.dir.original Create new fonts.dir file by executing the following commands ttmkfdir -m 60 -o fonts.scale mkfontdir