This is illegal practise and is not recommended. Microsoft released their msttcorefonts set to the public domain years ago. Although you will no longer find it on a Microsoft website, because it was released public domain they cannot stop others propogating it. All subsequent fonts were released under a different licence which is more restrictive.
It is common practise on a dual boot machine with windows to copy all the windows ttf fonts into linux to have them available. The legality of which is considered acceptable (at least Microsoft have never tried to test it AFAIK). On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:54:25 -0500 Jim Hartley wrote: > 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.> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >-> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> For > >additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > > > > -- > Teen Angel - a ghost story - http://teenangel.netfirms.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
