[PLUG] Font collections for cross-platform compatibility?

[drew wymore]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:35 PM, David Kaplan <davek52 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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I'll try and dig up the source, if you're using a non Debian distro, there
exists a shell script that will grab all the fonts and install them for you
automagically which I have used with great success on Slackware.