bluse2use said this on 1/21/2012 2:48 PM:

> On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:26:18 +0000, bluse2use wrote:

>

>> I have a considerable number of Truetype fonts in in my /home directory

>> in .fonts, in the /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype and in the /usr/share/

>> fonts/truetype directory. I'm not sure why they are in more than one

>> directory or how they got there.

>>

>> The problem is that none of my installed apps (Gimp, Inkscape, Libre

>> Office,etc.) can see or use these TTF fonts. Do I need to delete all of

>> them from these 3 directories and then reinstall to a specific

>> directory?

>>

>>

>> Thanks for the help....

>

> I located all of my TTF fonts in my system and deleted them from all

> locations then copied them back from my external hard drive folder to the

> fonts directory in my /home folder. Reset the database in Font Manager

> and rescanned the fonts. The are all available now to my applications

> that use them.

>

> Maybe this will help someone else...

Briefly for a newbie to Mint, can you elaborate the "reset the database 

.... and rescanned" statement.   I got all the movement and reinstall 

parts but I'm not that hot on some of the tools.

PS I'm in windows right now and maybe if I were in linux the Font 

Manager would be self explanatory but I have no news reader setup there. 

  Thanks.