Last updated on May 11, 2015

Installing/Using System Fonts (Edge 300/340)

Overview

This guide will show you the steps to install and use system fonts on the Edge 300 or 340.

Pre-requisites

The font file in .ttf or .otf format
Root/admin credentials for the device (Edge 300 or 340)
A PC within the same network to access the device(s)
USB flash drive (FAT32 format)

Installing and Using System Fonts on Edge 300

Step 1

Attach a USB flash drive into one of the USB ports on the device and SSH into the device using PuTTy (on a Windows PC) or Terminal (on a Mac). Input the root password = cisco.

ssh root@(device IP address)
root@(device Ip address)'s password: cisco

Step 2

Key in blkid to find the block ID of the USB flash drive by looking for the LABEL of the USB flash drive.

Step 3

Mount the USB flash drive to /tmp/mnt. (Create /tmp/mnt by typing in mkdir /tmp/mnt if it doesn’t exist).

# mount dev/sdb1 /tmp/mnt

Step 4

Locate the font file on the USB flash drive and copy the font file to /.fonts.

# cp amerd.tff /.fonts

Step 5

Install the font.

# fc-cache
# su user -c "fc-cache"

Step 6

Check if the font has been successfully installed by listing all installed system fonts.

# fc-list

Step 7

To utilize the installed font, open the plain text widget’s properties and set the font to the name of the font installed.

Step 8

Allow the player to update changes.

Step 9

Reboot the device either from Putty or Terminal.

# reboot

Step 10

The new icons will be displayed on the player.

Installing and Using System Fonts on Edge 340