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Awesome! I got it working by using your .tex file, and by manually downloading and moving files around in my local texmf folder. Oooh, the satisfaction (some hours went into this.) Thankyouthankyouthankyou!!

But now I have seen many ways of declaring what type of font the final output should have ...

I got augie working by your method, so thanx. :) But like you said, I am not attempting to have the entire presentation in a cartoon font.

I would like to understand how to use fonts that I download manually. So far, I can't even understand why or how to use the ones I have installed through ...

"Augie" is a calligraphical font found in the LaTeX font archive: http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/calligraphicalfonts.html

I am using Ubuntu 10.10, having texlive installed, texlive-fonts-recommended and texlive-fonts-extra.

My basic document looks like this:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage ...