[TriLUG] Windows System Fonts for Linux

[Matthew Todd]

Matt Matthews wrote:
> You can't get the fonts that Windows comes with unless you take them
> from a Windows machine.


A few* of these fonts are available at
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/ .

If I remember correctly, unzip can handle the Windows 3.1 and 3.11
self-extracting archive files just fine.

Matthew


* these:
Andale Mono
Arial
Arial Black
Comic Sans
Courier New
Georgia
Impact
Times New Roman
Trebuchet
Verdana
Webdings



----- Original Message -----
From: "John Matthews" <jvmatthe at math.duke.edu>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Windows System Fonts for Linux


> On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 13:19, Jeff Bollinger wrote:
> > Anyone have any idea if there is a package (RPM or otherwise) that I can
> > get that will install the fonts that are typically found on a Windows
> > system?  I'm trying out Wine (for the first time) and I'm not getting
> > the right fonts.
>
> You can't get the fonts that Windows comes with unless you take them
> from a Windows machine.
>
> At home, I copied over the fonts from my Win2k machine and installed
> them in /usr/share/fonts/TrueType then made the appropriate changes in
> xfs (/etc/X11/fs/config) and Mozilla
> (/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/prefs/unix.js) to be able to use them. (If
> non-Red Hat, then put the font path in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 in
> appropriate section.)
>
> I don't about WINE, but I'd suppose if xfs or XFree86 can see them then
> you're done.
>
> Regards,
> matt
>
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