On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 08:53, GJ Eldering wrote:

Donald D Henson wrote:

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I recently had occasion to reinstall my entire system, something that is happening with disturbing regularity. Usually, I get an opportunity to download and install Microsoft TrueType core fonts. This time, for some reason, I didn't get that opportunity. I would still like to install the core fonts but I can't seem to find a way to get to them. I've looked in Synaptic but no MS fonts are available. I've tried using YaST but can't find any MS fonts. Can anyone point me to a source of MS TrueType core fonts and a way to install them? I'd really appreciate it.

Don Henson

YOU

GJ

That answer sounds good but 'you' is a link to yast2 which I've already tried. I looked in all the modules but mainly in the 'Install and Remove Software' module. I've searched it six ways from Sunday and MS TrueType fonts are just not there. I have a Windows system with all the fonts I want, paid for many times over. Is there a way to move them to my linux system and install them so they can be accessed in a standard way? Don Henson

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 14:09, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:

* Donald D Henson; on 09 Feb, 2004 wrote:

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I have a Windows system with all the fonts I want, paid for many times over. Is there a way to move them to my linux system and install them so they can be accessed in a standard way?

http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/faq/xfonts.html

Ah, yes. If all else fails, read the instructions. :-) Thanks for the pointer. It looks like exactly what I need. Don Henson

On Monday 09 February 2004 3:53 pm, Donald D Henson wrote: [snip]

That answer sounds good but 'you' is a link to yast2 which I've already tried. I looked in all the modules but mainly in the 'Install and Remove Software' module. I've searched it six ways from Sunday and MS TrueType fonts are just not there.

I have a Windows system with all the fonts I want, paid for many times over. Is there a way to move them to my linux system and install them so they can be accessed in a standard way?

Yes, just zip up all of the *.ttf files. Put them in a dir. that you can access via Linux or burn the zip to a CD. Unzip the files into a temp dir in SUSE 9.0. Open up your "Control Center," choose System Administration, then Font Installer. Click on at the bottom "Administrator Mode" or the fonts won't be accessable system wide! Enter the root password. Go to the dir. where the fonts are, tag them all, the click on "Enable." After that has run, then click on "Apply." Once done, remove the *.ttf files in the temp. dir. Now, you're almost done. Open a konsole window and su to root. Run SuSEconfig to make the fonts usable by all applications. Enjoy! Fred -- "...Linux, MS-DOS, and Windows XP (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)."

On Monday 09 February 2004 03:53 pm, Donald D Henson wrote:

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 08:53, GJ Eldering wrote:

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Donald D Henson wrote:

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I recently had occasion to reinstall my entire system, something that is happening with disturbing regularity. Usually, I get an opportunity to download and install Microsoft TrueType core fonts. This time, for some reason, I didn't get that opportunity. I would still like to install the core fonts but I can't seem to find a way to get to them. I've looked in Synaptic but no MS fonts are available. I've tried using YaST but can't find any MS fonts. Can anyone point me to a source of MS TrueType core fonts and a way to install them? I'd really appreciate it.

Don Henson

YOU

Uhhh Sir... YOU is an acronymn for YAST ONLINE UPDATE. Go into the online update of YAST and you should find the fonts for downloading. You've been looking in all the wrong places.

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GJ

That answer sounds good but 'you' is a link to yast2 which I've already tried. I looked in all the modules but mainly in the 'Install and Remove Software' module. I've searched it six ways from Sunday and MS TrueType fonts are just not there.

I have a Windows system with all the fonts I want, paid for many times over. Is there a way to move them to my linux system and install them so they can be accessed in a standard way?

Don Henson

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