2008/3/2, Pat Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 2:04 PM, NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 02/28/2008 03:42 PM, Pat Brown wrote: > > > I recently switched over from Windows to Ubuntu. There were some > > > documents I was working on in Windows with OpenOffice and I've been > > > editing one today. I noticed some of the fonts within the document > > > differ, though they should all be the same (Times New Roman) Instead > > > they showed as Verdana. But when I select all the text and try to > > > format the font, none of the standard fonts show up. There is no > Times > > > New Roman, no Courier New, nothing I'm familiar with. what gives? Is > > > there someplace I can get more standardized fonts. A lot of > publishers > > > I deal with want TNR or CN, not some some unknown font that may not > > > even be on their system. > > > > > > > > > System|Administration|Synaptic - Search: msttcorefonts > > Click & install. Or from a terminal command line: > > > > sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts > > > > > > Thank you so much. That worked! > > > Pat > > > -- > Pat Brown > http://www.pabrown.ca/ > > L.A. Heat, the first Chris and David mystery > > Also note that the Arial Narrow font unfortunately is missing it the msttcorefonts package.
Personally I have stopped using Arial and the other msttcorefonts since I discovered that some of the characters didn't follow the UTF-8 character table. Instead I use DejaVu Sans and the other DejaVu fonts. To make DejaVu Sans to look more like Arial, I change the character parameters Scale Width and Spacing to 96%, Condensed and 0,4pt respectively. The DejaVu font series are free, I think. But this was not what you asked for so maybe I'd better keep quiet instead. J.R. J.R.
