hi everyone,
I meant to post this to the list some time ago -- by accident I posted
it directly to don. Hope this helps anyone having similar problems.
matt
Don,
thanks so much for your help. This is a very satisfactory intermediate
solution (ultimately I'd like to be able to use my favorite font,
palatino -- but that can assuredly wait!). Since I've seen a bunch of
similar questions on this list, and since the process wwas ultimately
slightly more complicated than anyone's indicated, I thought I'd just
post a step-by-step description of what I did (for other newbies).
1. In order to get msttcorefonts to run properly, I had to *first*
download the font files themselves. I got them from sourceforge:
http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/
and downloaded them to a directory path_to_dir_/fonts
the fonts are the .exe files
2. install msttcorefonts:
sudo apt-get install -t unstable msttcorefonts
(I think you need to have an unstable directory listed in
/etc/apt/source.list, like the following:
deb http://mirror.direct.ca/linux/debian unstable main non-free contrib )
when it asks you where the .exe files are, give it the name of the
directory into which you adownloaded them (e.g., path_to_file/fonts).
3. Install the fonts in OpenOffice:
in OOo 1.0.1, at least, I couldn't find the printer admin tool from
within the normal gui. But the help file in OO told me this other
method:
find the directory where OpenOffice is installed -- there should be a
file called spadmin. launch it by cd'ing in, and typing
sudo ./spadmin
Click on the "fonts" button; it will ask you for the path to the fonts, which
should be:
/usr/share/fonts/truetype
"c
lick on "select all" fwhen the fonts come up, and everything should
work just great!
Thanks again for the help!@!! this is so great...
matt
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 12:05:56PM -0500, Donald R. Spoon wrote:
> Matt,
>
> You are facing 3 problems:
>
> 1. M$ quit offering the "corefonts" on their typography site a few
> weeks ago, hence the "404" error. These fonts are still available
> elsewhere, but the Woody msttcorefonts package still points towards the
> M$ site for automatic download. The solution is to grab the
> msttcorefonts package from eithe "testing" or "unstable" and use that.
> It has a corrected d/l site.
>
> 2. Getting the TrueType fonts recognized by your system. This is
> beyond the scope of what I can do in a short message, but scanning this
> list or going to the HOWTO at the Linux Documentation Project will get
> you started. You don't absolutely HAVE to do this to get to your
> end-point, but it will make these fonts available to the rest of your
> apps as well as OO. There is also some good info in your KDE install
> about "anti-aliasing HOWTO" in /usr/doc/, but this seems a bit dated on
> my install....
>
> 3. Getting OO to recognize these new fonts. The solution here is to do
> #1, then fire up OO as root and select the pPrinter Administration
> function. Along the bottom you will see a button labled "Fonts". This
> will bring up a screen where you can add system fonts. You will have to
> "browse" the system to find where they are stored, but /usr/share/fonts/
> is a good place to start. My experience had been that you will only be
> able to install type1 and truetype fonts. You might also want to look
> in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts. Experiment...
>
> Cheers,
> -Don Spoon-
>
>
>
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