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New Rupee Symbol in Debian

July 18th, 2010 Gaurav Paliwal Leave a comment Go to comments

Steps to include new rupee font in Debian:

1.Download the file named Rupee Foradian.ttf from the the Foradian Technology blog “http://blog.foradian.com/rupee-font-version-20”

2.In your Debian machine login as root or use su

?Download download.txt
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mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf
cp Rupee_Foradian.ttf /usr/share/fonts/ttf
apt-get install ttmkfdir
cd /usr/share/fonts/ttf
ttmkfdir  > fonts.scale
mkfontdir
cd /usr/share/fonts/ttf/
chmod 644 /usr/share/fonts/ttf/Rupee_Foradian.ttf

For other Linux versions see the below presentation :

Rupee font linux

3.Now either reboot your computer or restart gdm and start enjoying Indian rupee Symbol :P

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  • http://twitter.com/aveeksen Aveek Sen

    Read article in Times of India: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Heres-...

  • http://gauravpaliwal2.0fees.net/wordpress/ gauravpaliwal

    I already had read that article in the morning , and you can also read in the post the I have used the foradian rupee font :P

  • http://exain.wordpress.com/ Vivek Kapoor

    Another option is, in Ubuntu (I'm sure it should be similar in debian too), just open the font and click 'Install font' button on bottom left. No need for command line at all.

    Then select the font in OpenOffice.org and press the back-quote key `. Unfortunately, we use the back-quote key for a number of activities in Linux, but still it's usable if we have to write some print article/pdf having the rupee symbol. Thanks for the post.

  • http://gauravpaliwal2.0fees.net/wordpress/ gauravpaliwal

    @vivek : thnx. here is my reply :

    for ubuntu : whatever you are saying is correct .
    for fedora you can just copy the ttf file to the .font directory under the user home directory and run the command ” fc-cache” and use the font.
    [for Debian the font viewer doesn't have any install button and .fonts doesn't exist under home directory at-least in Lenny]

  • Unni

    We are linking to this blog post. If possible please include more detailed help and tips and tricks for other Linux distro if any

    Thank you.

  • Unni
  • http://gauravpaliwal2.0fees.net/wordpress/ gauravpaliwal

    @Unni Thnx for linking the blog post. I have added a presentation to the existing post for doing the same on other Linux versions.The url of the presentation added above is : http://www.slideshare.net/gauravpaliwal/rupee-f... .

  • Hari

    Hi Gaurav,
    It's happy to get the INR font. It would be more of state of the art if the key stroke an be modified to a combination of keys like Ctrl+` rather than ` alone since this is a well known key used in Linux :)

  • http://gauravpaliwal2.0fees.net/wordpress/ gauravpaliwal

    @Hari in that case go for this : http://pravin-s.blogspot.com/2010/07/added-new-...

  • http://thezerolife.com/460/indian-currency-symbol-how-to-implement-historical-memory-collection Indian Currency Symbol, How To Implement, And Historical Memory Collection. | The Zero Life.

    [...] to install Rupee font on Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian System  or See the below Slide from Gaurav Paliwal. Rupee font linux View more presentations from [...]

  • JONA YESH

    IT IS GOOD TO HAVE AN INDIAN CURRENCY LOGO AS DEVOLOPED COUNTRYS HAS

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