Thanks Steven for this hint.
I tryed it and it worked fine on Ubuntu 12.04.
Gerald
On 2014-03-11 21:05, Steven Haigh wrote:
> I'm a bit lazy with this....
>
> I have an archive of all fonts from C:\Windows\Fonts - I simply extract
> this to a new directory in /usr/share/fonts/Windows.
>
> I then run the following as root:
> fc-cache -f -v
>
> From then on, all the windows fonts are available.
>
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> On 12/03/14 04:43, צביקה הרמתי wrote:
>> Actually, I already have the liberation fonts installed.
>>
>> To be more detailed, the application that needs the fonts is Cadence
>> Specman, which currently looks awful (compared to other machines I used).
>> I'm not 100% sure, but it's claimed that MS fonts should solve the
>> problem, so it's worth trying.
>>
>> Regarding
>> http://oimon.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/msttcorefonts-on-rhel6-centos-6-sl6/,
>> well, I saw that link, and something is strange there.
>> They take http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec and
>> patch it.
>> However, there is already
>> http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.5-1.spec
>> Therefore, I assumed that the previous post is outdated.
>>
>> That's the reason I wanted to hear some opinions, before trying a
>> process that I don't fully understand...
>>
>> 2014-03-11 19:35 GMT+02:00 Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]
>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]
>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>> > On 03/11/2014 12:09 PM, צביקה הרמתי wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi.
>> >
>> > What's the best way to install MS TTF fonts?
>> > In Debian/Ubuntu, I just installed "ttf-mscorefonts-installer".
>> > Googling gave some peculiar answers; I wandered what's the common
>> practice.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Zvika
>> >
>> >
>> > I personally prefer the Liberation Fonts. They are very similar
>> to the
>> > mscorefonts but under a less restrictive license.
>> >
>> > As root:
>> > yum install liberation-serif-fonts liberation-sans-fonts
>> > liberation-mono-fonts
>> >
>> > Should provide them.
>> >
>> > Pat
>>
>> +1 for the Liberation fonts.
>>
>> But if you _must_ install ttf fonts for some reason, check this out:
>>
>> http://oimon.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/msttcorefonts-on-rhel6-centos-6-sl6/
>> <http://oimon.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/msttcorefonts-on-rhel6-centos-6-sl6/>
>>
>> (not tested by me)
>>
>> Akemi
>>
>>
>
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