[hblug] Fonts Failures

[Brett Wilkins]

To add the ms core fonts to ubuntu the command is usually "sudo apt-get msttfcorefonts". Will confirm on pc after breakfast.

Brett Wilkins

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Adams <linux_mike at paradise.net.nz>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 12:05 AM
To: Hawke's Bay Linux User Group <hblug at linux.net.nz>
Subject: Re: [hblug] Fonts Failures

On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:01:51 +1300
Perry Spiller wrote:

> After the various hardware and software fiddles on Wednesday
> evening, I find that there's very few fonts 'active' in OO2, on
> my wife's machine. Looking in the fonts folder, I notice that
> few of the font names are rendering on screen as TT. I.e. they
> seem to picking the nearest approximate equivalent. Mostly
> Times or a subset like Times New Roman.
> 
> After a brief hunt around the Ubuntu & OO HELP files, and
> some www looking about, I'm none the wiser about how to
> fix the problem.
> 

Very few linux distros come with much in the way of TT fonts installed.
Using the Adobe Postscript Type 1 format instead. For Microsoft Core
Fonts there is usually a copy available via the installer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web

Look up "(distro name here) microsoft core fonts" on Google. Which would
be "ubuntu microsoft core fonts" if i read the above corectly. If i
remember correctly they may or may not be available to OO.o at first
once installed.

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