Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

It is spelled with uppercases when I open them and see its name in the 
window's title box.

But either way, I use it more than the Software Center.

With my stroked-out typing skills, at times it is much safer to install 
anything either from a package manager or the software center than it 
would be typing the commands via the Terminal.

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Actually, have anyone lately see all of the TTF font package that are in 
the package manager for Ubuntu?  I have not looked at the 12.04 version 
with this in mind, but the first time I saw what was in 10.04's distro, 
the more I wondered.

I wish I could get a full list of these fonts outside of the 
installation.  Some of the packages are full with too many of them.  I 
would rather pick and choose the ones I would like to use and leave the 
rest out.  Also, it would be nice to not have to wade though all the 
non-English or non-Latin fonts if I could choose to.  But at least there 
are enough for a person to get a taste of what might be out there.  The 
only problem would be accidentally deleting a needed font.  Did that 
once and had to reinstall 10.04 to correct that problem that stopped my 
ability to read menus and some displayed text.

Still, it would be nice to know what are Ubuntu's core needed fonts so 
someone does not do what I did and delete one or three from the 
installed font list.

Of course with the Core Fonts idea, maybe someone should start comparing 
fonts and maybe start a table/list of font names and similar ones win 
the different OSs.  Take a font name and list what is the closest font 
that is installed, be default, in Windows [XP, Vista, Win7], MaxOSX, and 
different Linux distros.  Then list popular fonts by name and paid and 
free fonts that are similar enough to be replacements for them.

There are some list out there, but since LO is a package for creating 
documents, we would do well to have a list of free fonts to replace paid 
ones, like LO is replacing a paid office package. Any takers?

I could search for some of my old comparison lists, and maybe start it 
going, but I could use people to help fill it in.  We could make a WIKI 
page out of this so anyone could contribute to it.  Good idea?

On 07/22/2012 04:09 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
> On 07/22/2012 02:36 PM, Dan wrote:
> > I believe that the correct spelling is synaptic. (It is spelled this 
> > way for my Ubuntu 11.10.)
> You are correct, I tend to capitalize names even when they are not 
> capitalized.
> > Jay Lozier wrote:
> > > On 07/22/2012 01:04 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > > > 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!
> > > If you search for ttf-mscorefonts in Synpatic you might find them
> > > already installed. Also, you can install a font installer via Synaptic
> > > or the Software Center to install the fonts you backed up from 
> > > Windows 7.
> > > > 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
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > >
> > > > > antisocky@myopera.com
> > > > >
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