To install ms fonts in Mint: $ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Randy Stapilus <[email protected]>wrote: > I tried solving one font problem and ended up with a new one. > > Running Linux Mint (current edition), dual-booted with Windows XP, I > wanted to import fonts from Windows; the lack of some comparable > fonts are a bar to some of the desktop publishing I do. So I copied > the fonts directory in XP (that is, windows/fonts) over to a memory > stick, thence to the Linux side of the machine at usr/share/fonts. > New fonts did show up (though not all, a couple I hoped for did not > materialize) in the Open Office docs I opened. > > But, when I went to use Firefox and Galeon, no text of any sort > showed up in the browser window - only web wage images and design. > The problem doesn't seem to extend to other programs - the Tomboy > notes program, for example, seems to operate as normal. > > I suppose (I hope) I can reverse this by deleting the fonts directory > I just copied over. But I'm wondering if there's a way to get the > fonts to work in all of these places. Or is there something about > what I did that would cause the installation to work in OO but not in > the browsers? > > Randy Stapilus > www.ridenbaugh.com > Northwest politics and public affairs > WA, OR, ID Public Affairs Digests > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
