Microsoft's TrueType core fonts for the Web are no longer available for download from www.microsoft.com. http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm Thadeu
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Going to the second URL produces nothing useful. What's up?--dm At 09:04 08/17/2002 -0300, Jose Thadeu Cavalcante wrote:
Microsoft's TrueType core fonts for the Web are no longer available for download from www.microsoft.com.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm
Thadeu
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Doug McGarrett wrote:
Going to the second URL produces nothing useful. What's up?--dm
MS discontinued program under which they been sharing ttf fonts with rest of the world. Part of OS wars, i presume, b/c webdings.ttf still available. So you couldnt get ttf fonts with fetchmsttfonts anymore. Just load ttf fonts from your old windows distro or search on ftps 8) Cheers, Sergei
Does anyone have a procedure for installing the TT fonts from a windows installation into Linux? Art On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 08:13, Sergei Rodionov wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
Going to the second URL produces nothing useful. What's up?--dm
MS discontinued program under which they been sharing ttf fonts with rest of the world. Part of OS wars, i presume, b/c webdings.ttf still available. So you couldnt get ttf fonts with fetchmsttfonts anymore.
Just load ttf fonts from your old windows distro or search on ftps 8)
Cheers, Sergei
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* Art Fore (art_fore@3mts.com) [020818 08:44]: ::Does anyone have a procedure for installing the TT fonts from a windows ::installation into Linux? I had my officemate zip up his fonts directory on his Windows XP box and scp it to my Linux box. I unzipped them into the truetype directory and ran SuSEconfig an following that I had more TT fonts available in X :) "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/" I then tarred up that truetype font directory and scped it home to be burned to CD. I never trust MS to keep giving stuff away. They are a monolithic company and once they actually figure out what's going on they say " well, we won't have any of that. " and they screw everyone..not just the users they don't like. :) sidenote: BTW..there are tons of CD's available with TT fonts on them for under $10 in most cases at places like Fry's and Best Buy. I'm sure there are websites that have them as well. Also, StarOffice 6.0 comes with quite a few TT fonts and this might be worth buying from SuSE for that reason as well. "~/staroffice/share/fonts/truetype/" Note: staroffice is the directory *I* chose for StarOffice 6.0 it's not the default, but 'share/fonts/truetype' is. cheers! -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- Tell me what you believe..I tell you what you should see. -DP --=====-----=====--
Thanks. I copied the fonts from my Win2k to a fat 32 partician, then copied them into the path you stated. Art On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 12:01, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Art Fore (art_fore@3mts.com) [020818 08:44]: ::Does anyone have a procedure for installing the TT fonts from a windows ::installation into Linux?
I had my officemate zip up his fonts directory on his Windows XP box and scp it to my Linux box. I unzipped them into the truetype directory and ran SuSEconfig an following that I had more TT fonts available in X :)
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/"
I then tarred up that truetype font directory and scped it home to be burned to CD. I never trust MS to keep giving stuff away. They are a monolithic company and once they actually figure out what's going on they say " well, we won't have any of that. " and they screw everyone..not just the users they don't like. :)
sidenote:
BTW..there are tons of CD's available with TT fonts on them for under $10 in most cases at places like Fry's and Best Buy. I'm sure there are websites that have them as well.
Also, StarOffice 6.0 comes with quite a few TT fonts and this might be worth buying from SuSE for that reason as well.
"~/staroffice/share/fonts/truetype/"
Note: staroffice is the directory *I* chose for StarOffice 6.0 it's not the default, but 'share/fonts/truetype' is.
cheers!
-=Ben
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* Art Fore (art_fore@3mts.com) [020818 12:22]: ::Thanks. I copied the fonts from my Win2k to a fat 32 partician, then ::copied them into the path you stated. Please make sure that path is in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file as well. Sorry I forgot to mention that. If you had some TT fonts then it's most likely there but it's always good to make sure. :) Also, just so everyone knows. Due to "issues" with X version and other things..Anti-Aliasing is turned off in every KDE build for 7.3 and below. TT fonts AA works perfectly in 8.0. Don't ask me why it was done like this. Only thing I was told was that the version of X couldn't be counted on to be counted on in versions below 8.0. -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- Tell me what you believe..I tell you what you should see. -DP --=====-----=====--
Already had those from fetchttfonts before microsoft took it away. Tried the new fonts in OOo and they work. Thanks Art On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 12:28, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Art Fore (art_fore@3mts.com) [020818 12:22]: ::Thanks. I copied the fonts from my Win2k to a fat 32 partician, then ::copied them into the path you stated.
Please make sure that path is in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file as well. Sorry I forgot to mention that. If you had some TT fonts then it's most likely there but it's always good to make sure. :)
Also, just so everyone knows. Due to "issues" with X version and other things..Anti-Aliasing is turned off in every KDE build for 7.3 and below. TT fonts AA works perfectly in 8.0. Don't ask me why it was done like this. Only thing I was told was that the version of X couldn't be counted on to be counted on in versions below 8.0.
-=Ben
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Already had those from fetchttfonts before microsoft took it away. Tried the new fonts in OOo and they work.
I wouldn't mind betting that OO is the source of MS's issue with these fonts being free. Since the Word->OO etc. filters have been sorted out, ensuring OO/Linux and OO/Solaris users can't use the "normal" Windows fonts will ensure they still can't see the documents as intended without jumping through more hoops. A translation line in the X font handler will fix that, but then there's the issue that documents sent the other way will not show correctly on Windows unless Windows users start installing and using compatible font packages. -- The past: Smart users in front of dumb terminals
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