A. Create the Microsoft truetype directory in Ubuntu:
sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/microsoft
B. Copy the ttf and TTF fonts from the Windows Fonts directory into the directory created in step 1. Here ${NTFSHOME} is the mountpoint in Ubuntu of your Windows filesystem (when using ntfs-3g). Otherwise, just copy all the ttf/TTF files from Windows onto USB thumbdrive and transfer to Ubuntu:
cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype/microsoft
sudo cp ${NTFSHOME}/WINDOWS/Fonts/{*ttf,*TTF} .
C. Make all the ttf/TTF files readable by everyone (when copied from USB it is probably rwx by root and no permissions for anyone else--this is bad):
sudo chmod 644 *ttf *TTF
D. Install the ttmkfdir package. Omit this step if you already have it:
sudo apt-get install ttmkfdir
E. Create the fonts.scale and fonts.dir files in the microsoft truetype directory:
cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype/microsoft
sudo ttmkfdir *ttf *TTF
sudo cp fonts.scale fonts.dir
F. Recreate the font-cache files for X font server
sudo fc-cache -f -v
G. Start OpenOffice writer and check if you can access the fonts "Times New Roman" and "Arial". If you can, then you are done. Congratulations!
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2 comments:
you could install the msttcorefonts package and it will download the publicly available ms fonts for you.
this is an easier alternative specially if you don't have windows co-installed.
Allan: Thanks. Kumusta na?
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