[NBLUG/talk] Installing a new font on Ubuntu

[matt]

On Sunday 18 November 2007 22:07:19 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.
>
> What is the procedure for adding fonts to Ubuntu, and how do I make them
> available to OpenOffice and other applications on the Ubuntu machine?  The
> OpenOffice Help screens suggest that I use a program called, spadmin.  On
> my system, when I tried to invoke the spadmin program, the system was
> unable to find it.  I know I must be doing something wrong, and I could use
> some guidance on how to correct the problem.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance....Steve

Are you by any chance running KDE? If so, you can just go to "fonts:/" in 
Konqueror and drag them into there.

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Matt
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