[PLUG] Font collections for cross-platform compatibility?

David Kaplan davek52 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 11 02:35:43 UTC 2009


some distros use: msttcorefonts. I've use that command in Ubuntu:
# apt-get install msttcorefonts



On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Tim <tim-pdxlug at sentinelchicken.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > If buying the exact same fonts separately would be prohibitively
> > expensive (which I'm guessing is likely), I'd be willing to settle for a
> > collection of near-identical fonts that are named in an obvious enough
> > way that I would which fonts to substitute for their Windows
> alternatives.
>
> I'm no fonts expert, but I've dealt with this issue a number of times.
> First off, do you have the "mscorefonts" package installed?  For a
> while M$ was distributing many of their fonts under a free-as-in-beer
> license.  From what I understand, this has ceased, but you can still
> obtain a copy from various sources.
>
> Under debian non-free, there's a package called
> "ttf-mscorefonts-installer" which downloads those fonts at install
> time.  Hopefully this will help you with several of your font issues.
>
> A second thing you can do for more recent M$ fonts is copy the fonts
> out of one of your Windows installs (if you have one) and set them up
> under xfstt or something similar.  So long as you own the Windows
> installation, then this almost certainly falls under fair use.
>
> good luck,
> tim
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