Makes sense about the licensing. Thank you for that explanation. I see that the fonts available at the link you supplied are packaged for Windows. How do I place them on the OI system? Thanks again
On Thursday, December 22, 2011, Alan Coopersmith < [email protected]> wrote: > On 12/21/11 20:47, Mark Creamer wrote: >> >> One of our servers we're trying to move off of Linux and on to OI runs >> Tomcat and Jasper Reports. Jasper is complaining that it needs Arial font. >> I remember once that I was able to install a truetype fonts package from >> the OpenSolaris extras repo, but now that it is gone, is there any way to >> get these fonts installed on OI? Im running 151a. > > Arial was in the extras repo because it was commercially licensed and not > freely redistributable, so OpenIndiana can't provide that version/package. > > An older version of Arial is freely available from the old Microsoft WebFonts > pack though: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/webfonts/ > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] > Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System > > -- Mark _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
