On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:35 PM, David Kaplan <[email protected]> wrote:
> some distros use: msttcorefonts. I've use that command in Ubuntu: > # apt-get install msttcorefonts > > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Tim <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > I'll try and dig up the source, if you're using a non Debian distro, there exists a shell script that will grab all the fonts and install them for you automagically which I have used with great success on Slackware. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
