[PLUG] fonts on browser

[Andrew Denton]

Also keep in mind that openoffice doesn't support opentype (.otf) fonts yet.
As I recall there's some magic you can do with fontforge to convert them to
truetype (.ttf) format.

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:03 AM, David Kaplan <davek52 at gmail.com> wrote:

> To install ms fonts in Mint:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Randy Stapilus <stapilus at ridenbaugh.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I tried solving one font problem and ended up with a new one.
> >
> > Running Linux Mint (current edition), dual-booted with Windows XP, I
> > wanted to import fonts from Windows; the lack of some comparable
> > fonts are a bar to some of the desktop publishing I do. So I copied
> > the fonts directory in XP (that is, windows/fonts) over to a memory
> > stick, thence to the Linux side of the machine at usr/share/fonts.
> > New fonts did show up (though not all, a couple I hoped for did not
> > materialize) in the Open Office docs I opened.
> >
> > But, when I went to use Firefox and Galeon, no text of any sort
> > showed up in the browser window - only web wage images and design.
> > The problem doesn't seem to extend to other programs - the Tomboy
> > notes program, for example, seems to operate as normal.
> >
> > I suppose (I hope) I can reverse this by deleting the fonts directory
> > I just copied over. But I'm wondering if there's a way to get the
> > fonts to work in all of these places. Or is there something about
> > what I did that would cause the installation to work in OO but not in
> > the browsers?
> >
> > Randy Stapilus
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