Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

Here is the page for ms core fonts for Ubuntu 12.04:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+package/ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Synaptic needed to be manually installed starting about 11.04.

Don


On 07/22/2012 07:32 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 2012/7/22 Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>:
> > Hi :)
> > There is always at least 1 distro that renames things a bit.  In this case i think it's Ubuntu so 
> > it might be worth searching your package manager to get the right fonts
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> Well, the OP said he had Ubuntu, but not which version. I assumed
> 12.04 since he also asked how to install Synaptic. I think (but I'm
> not 100% sure) that 12.04 is the first Ubuntu that doesn't come with
> Synaptic pre-installed.
>
> Some older versions of Ubuntu have a different name of that package,
> and I think a few fonts were missing as well.
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
>
> > --- On Sun, 22/7/12, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts
> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Date: Sunday, 22 July, 2012, 6:04
> >
> > 2012/7/21 Anthony Easthope <antisocky@myopera.com>:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I was wondering what would be considered the core fonts on Microsoft.
> > > After  ages fruitless searching I was wondering if anybody could help me
> > > on what they would consider to be core fonts.
> > > I backed up my fonts folder from windows 7 before the change to ubuntu
> > > so I had all of them problem is I can not be bothered installing every
> > > single one of them!
> > The quickest way, if you want to install those mss TTF core fonts from
> > the repositories, is from a terminal. Just copy this line into a
> > terminal and hit Enter. Note that the keyboard shortcut for Paste is
> > Ctrl+Shift+v, if you didn't edit those yourself:
> >
> > sudo apt-get install ms-corefonts-installer
> >
> > The package contains:
> > Andale
> > Arial Black
> > Arial
> > Comic Sans
> > Courier New
> > Georgia
> > Impact
> > Times New Roman
> > Trebuchet
> > Verdana
> > Webdings
> >
> > If you only want to use Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New, it's
> > recommended that you use the free fonts from the package
> > fonts-liberation instead (probably already installed on your system.
> > Those are called something like Liberation Sans (looks like Arial) and
> > so on.
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Johnny Rosenberg
> > ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
> >
> >
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> > >
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