[NBLUG/talk] Installing a new font on Ubuntu

Mark Street mark at oswizards.com
Sun Nov 18 22:25:29 PST 2007


Hi,

http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/msttcorefonts

I have used this one on my rpm systems for years.

http://corefonts.sourceforge.net

On Sunday November 18 2007, Steve Bursch wrote:
> I use OpenOffice.org on both my Windows XP machine, and on my Ubuntu
> machine.  Both versions of OpenOffice are at the same release level: 2.3. 
> I've discovered that the OpenOffice.org on my Windows machine has many more
> fonts available to it than does OpenOffice on my Ubuntu machine.  For
> example, Times New Roman is available on my Windows machine, but is not
> available on my Ubuntu machine.  Consequently, OpenOffice documents created
> on my Windows machine do not format correctly when transferred to the
> Ubuntu machine, if they were created using a font unavailable on the Ubuntu
> machine.
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