Just find a Windoze machine somewhere and get a copy of ariel.ttf (I
think that's the name, should have all the ariel variants in it), then
follow Ubuntu instructions on "how to install fonts". Can't help you
much there, every distro does it differently and I use Fedora.
Windoze ttf files work fine in Linux.
Jim Hartley
Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
I could start a new thread about this, but since it's only an extension of
the original question of this thread I thought it was better to ask it as a
follow-up-question here:
I installed the msttcorefonts a while ago, but many documents that I created
before I replaced Windows with Ubuntu use the Arial Narrow font, and
therefore they don't look right in the Ubuntu version. Is there a place
where I can find that font for my Ubuntu system? It's not included in
msttcorefonts.
J.R.
2007/11/9, NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 11/09/2007 08:58 AM, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
Linda L. Hull. wrote:
I have been using Open Office for a while now, but
I have never figured out how to get English fonts
into the box at the top of the page (or even into
the other list that I get with right click)?
I don't really have a lot of use for ae_Sharjah,
Baekmuk Gulim, or AR PL SanHeiSun Uni.
It seems with each upgrade I get more fonts in
other languages and fewer in English.
I would like things like Aral Bold, Times New Roman
and Schoolbook.
How do I get these?
I'm running Ubuntu Feisty, and prefer command line.
I am an adult with learning disabilities, and need
step by step instructions, not man pages.
Linda
Hi Linda,
The fonts you have don't depend on Openoffice but rather on the
operating
system you use (Ubuntu Feisty in your case). To get the fonts you want,
you
need to install the msttcorefonts package which is in the Ubuntu
multivers
repo. From the command line type
sudo aptitude install msttcorefonts
Close your Openoffice and restart it. You should see your new fonts
among
those listed by Openoffice. Openoffice has a font-installer wizard but I
don't think it supplies the fonts you name. The msttcorefonts package
gives
you these fonts:
Andale Mono
Arial Black
Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Comic Sans MS (Bold)
Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Impact
Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Webdings
Hope this helps.
Jonathan
And to add to Jonathan's excellent advise, remove the excessive fonts
that you don't want (ae_Sharjah etc). There are several ways to do this
from the command line, but the easiest in this case is to just use
Synaptic:
System|Administration|Synaptic Package Manager| search for font
scroll down to ttf-arabeyes and right-click. Click 'Mark for Removal'.
That will remove the arabeyes fonts. You can do the same for others that
you do not have use for, examples:
ttf-alee
ttf-arphic-ukai
ttf-arphic-uming
ttf-baekmuk
ttf-bengali-fonts
An alternate & easy method to see what you have on your system, and to
view/remove is:
Alt-F2 then enter fonts:/// and click 'Run'. That will open a folder
showing all of the fonts. You can then double-click on any of the fonts
to view, or click to remove my normal Nautilus methods.
A nice utility to view Unicode characters is to install Gucharmap:
$ sudo apt-get install gucharmap
gucharmap will also allow you to copy & paste Unicode characters into an
application.
Like OOo, Ubuntu and other linux distros are global. So they accommodate
many different fonts & lanuages... which is pretty darn impressive when
you think about it :-) Just remove those that you don't want.
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