Hi, > If buying the exact same fonts separately would be prohibitively > expensive (which I'm guessing is likely), I'd be willing to settle for a > collection of near-identical fonts that are named in an obvious enough > way that I would which fonts to substitute for their Windows alternatives.
I'm no fonts expert, but I've dealt with this issue a number of times. First off, do you have the "mscorefonts" package installed? For a while M$ was distributing many of their fonts under a free-as-in-beer license. From what I understand, this has ceased, but you can still obtain a copy from various sources. Under debian non-free, there's a package called "ttf-mscorefonts-installer" which downloads those fonts at install time. Hopefully this will help you with several of your font issues. A second thing you can do for more recent M$ fonts is copy the fonts out of one of your Windows installs (if you have one) and set them up under xfstt or something similar. So long as you own the Windows installation, then this almost certainly falls under fair use. good luck, tim _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
