Synaptics package manager is available from the software center or is there a suitable "sudo get-apt install" code?
on the amount of fonts you have that's insane! that must be close to 10gb worth of them! On Sat, 21 Jul 2012, at 05:36 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: > > Each version of Windows had a different set of "core" fonts. I am a > "font person" so I should know this. I have over 100,000 of them in my > collection. > > Do you want to install the core fonts on you Ubuntu system? I run both > 10.04 and 12.04. > > If you go to the Synaptic Package Manager and type in "ms core fonts", > you get something like > > "ttf-mscorefonts-installer" > > That is what shows on my 10.04 system I use as my default one, which I > am typing from here. > > Install that and you get the "core" fonts that seem to be used by most > of the Windows versions from XP to Win7. Since I tend to have 200+ > fonts installed on both my Windows and Ubuntu systems, I have lost track > of the names of the current "core fonts". There are references to them > in lists, along with the core fonts for MacOSX, but you do not need to > know those names and matching fonts between systems unless you do some > font choosing in a web site's CSS theme. I use to do that. > > SO, > if you want to have your Ubuntu system include the "core" fonts that MS > thinks you need, then install that "ttf-mscorefonts-installer" package. > It is all you may need as far as MS is concerned. BUT, if you really > need some decorative fonts of specialty ones, I may have most of the > free ones that were available as of 2-3 years back. I really have not > looked for many new ones lately. > > > > On 07/21/2012 05:23 PM, Anthony Easthope wrote: > > 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! > > > > > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- antiso...@myopera.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
