How to install Rufscript (A Nice handwriting font) in Ubuntu Hardy/Intrepid
Posted by admin on October 21st, 2008 
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Making a font from others handwriting is more to experiment than fun. And what it made so thrill is that, all the glyphs for making of the font are captured from her note book, without her knowledge. My K750 worked as the capturing machine.
Install Rufscript in Ubuntu hardy/Intrepid in ubuntu
First you need to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
add the following lines
For Hardy Users
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/andrewsomething/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/andrewsomething/ubuntu hardy main
For Intrepid Users
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/andrewsomething/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/andrewsomething/ubuntu intrepid main
Save and exit the file.
Update the source list file using the following command
sudo aptitude update
Install rufscript using the following command
sudo aptitude install ttf-rufscript
This will complete the installation.
Change Default fonts in Ubuntu Hardy/Intrepid
Goto System —> Preferences —> Appearance
Once it opens click on Fonts tab change whereever you want to see rufscript fonts click on close
Rufscript Screenshots
Above two screenshots fonts also rufscript examples and one more here
I really like this new hand writing fonts.
October 21st, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Error
Building tag database… Done
Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “ttf-rufscript”
Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “ttf-rufscript”
October 21st, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Get the fonts from
http://hiran.in/blog/rufscript-font
Here is Andrew posting:
# andrewsomething on October 18th, 2008
Love it!
I went ahead and took a shot at a debian package.
Ubuntu Hardy and Intrepid packages can be found in my ppa:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~andrewsomething/+archive
Here’s a direct link to the deb:
https://edge.launchpad.net/%7Eandrewsomething/+archive/+files/ttf-rufscript_010-1~ppa1_all.deb
This is my first time packaging a font, so any comments would be appreciated. It becomes usable in OpenOffice, ect immediately on install but to use on the desktop it seems Gnome needs to be restarted. I don’t know if that’s normal.
October 21st, 2008 at 3:55 pm
@Ramesh
article repositories are working fine
October 21st, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Before you do sudo apt-get install ttf-rufscript, you have to do:
sudo apt-get update
Then do sudo apt-get install ttf-rufscript again.
October 21st, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Ramesh: Did you update the aptitude cache first? (e.g. sudo aptitude update).
October 21st, 2008 at 7:39 pm
@Vistaus & Keith
Thanks for your comments.I have updated the article with the source list update command
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:22 am
Thanks Guys, It worked now.. after sudo apt-get update.
After installing from package download, I has some error on authentication. I hope it will not happen when we do through sudo apt-get install
Cheers
Ramesh
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:18 am
You can also just download the font directly http://hiran.in/content/fonts/rufscript/Rufscript010.ttf and copy it to the “.fonts” folder under you home folder.
October 28th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Just to give you an update about this font…
My package for ttf-rufscript has been accepted into Debian Sid so the next version of Ubuntu (Jaunty) will have it in the default repositories.
October 29th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Thanks Ubuntu Geek
i am using it right now but with a font size of 11