On 02/13/2013 09:44 AM, Tim Bruce - PLUG wrote: > On Wed, February 13, 2013 09:35, Richard C. Steffens wrote: >> Upgrades sure are annoying. >> >> I've migrated to my Ubuntu 12.04 (32 bit) machine. I'm diving into a >> real project this morning. The first thing I need to do is to set a >> header to a Word doc with the name of the file rendered in Arial 9pt >> bold italic. I've been doing this for months. I copy the file name, past >> it into the header of the Word doc (using LibreOffice Writer, of >> course), select what I just pasted, right click on it and pick Arial >> from the list of available fonts. This worked fine in LibreOffice Writer >> on Ubuntu 10.04. But Arial is not on the list. I checked to be sure that >> msttcorefonts is installed. And, actually, Arial is present already in >> the template Word doc file. I can type Arial into the font selection box >> in the LibreOffice Writer tool bar, and it changes the font of the >> selection to Arial. >> >> So, why isn't Arial listed as a font option? Times New Roman isn't >> there, either, although it's present in the template file. >> >> <rant on> >> Aren't all these "improvements" wonderful? >> <rant off> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Dick Steffens >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > I think you need to install the "Microsoft" true type fonts, which aren't > installed by default. > > If I remember correctly, the following command will start the process: > sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer >
Thanks for the idea, but that's already done: rsteff@Gateway-E-4500D:~$ sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer [sudo] password for rsteff: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done ttf-mscorefonts-installer is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: kde-l10n-engb kde-l10n-zhcn Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded. rsteff@Gateway-E-4500D:~$ -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
