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Installing Microsoft Fonts
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Even if you use OpenOffice, you might still want all the *Microsoft
TrueType fonts* so that documents created using Word or PowerPoint look
as they were supposed to when you open them with OpenOffice. Also, with
the Microsoft Fonts installed we browsing will be better since the pages
will look as the designer originally intended them to. Most webpages are
designed with Microsoft fonts in mind. The stylesheet specify these
fonts. On Linux, when these specified fonts are not available on your
computer, they are replaced with generic equivalents. With these fonts
installed, you will see the page as it was designed. To install the
fonts, all you need to do in Ubuntu is to install the *msttcorefonts*
package. Instructions for installation are given below.
HI,
I found the following package in the website given below: It may be
useful to the persons who are intended to migrate or recently migrated
to Ubuntu. They need some MS fonts until they recognize their favorite
font in linux. Pls any one explain how to install since it deals about
repositories i need some help.
Chandran.
Advocate.
http://embraceubuntu.com/2005/09/09/installing-microsoft-fonts/
The Truetype Microsoft fonts provided by the package include:
* Andale Mono
* Arial Black
* Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
* Comic Sans MS (Bold)
* Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
* Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
* Impact
* Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
* Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
* Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
* Webdings
Installing Microsoft Truetype fonts on Ubuntu
You can install the MS core fonts by installing the *msttcorefonts*
package. To do this, enable the “Universe” component of the repositories
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto>. This is done by
default in Feisty. After you do that, use the following command from the
command line:
|$sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts|
This will give you the core fonts, but if there are other TrueType fonts
that you want installed, it is as easy as copying the font files to the
/~/.fonts// directory.
After installing new fonts, you will have to log out and log in again to
be able to see and use the new fonts. If you want to avoid this, you can
regenerate the fonts cache by issuing the following command:
|$sudo fc-cache -fv|
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