On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 07:25, jennifer wrote:
> How is one to tell??
>
> I mention that I recently came across the instructions
> on how to install the new fonts, but I haven't had the
> time yet to sit down and really understand them.
>
> From the advice I got in other groups, I can simply
> copy all the true type fonts from my windows machine
> (burn them if neccesary, I didn't think of doing
> that)and they were good to go on my linux box.
>
> <Do you all see what I mean?? This is alot of trouble
> to go through just to be able to read the type face on
> the manufacturers website...You would think that
> Mandrake would cater to their own community and either
> include the Arial font, or compose their website in
> linux-readable format>
Mandrake cannot include Arial in their distro, since it is copyrighted by
Monotype Corp (I believe). Their site is made for Helvetica, which is readily
available for GNU/Linux.
> --- Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Be careful to do this only for fonts which you have
> > the legal right to
> > use on other computers.
> >
> > Randy Kramer
> >
> > Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote:
> > > What I did was to burn the xxx fonts on a CD and
> >
> > install then on all MDK
> >
> > > computers using the MDK font installer. Easy to
> >
> > do.
>
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