[wellylug] Quotes in M$Word docs, opened with OpenOffice

Jamie Baddeley wellylug at vpc.co.nz
Mon Mar 22 18:49:26 NZST 2004


it worked alright for me on sarge a few weeks ago.
don't know about woody.

http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=msttcorefonts&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all

jamie

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 18:36, JP wrote:
>  --- Gordon Paynter wrote: > 
> > There are some free Microsoft fonts about, I think. 
> > Debian has a package 
> > msttcorefonts which I think is supposed to install
> > them.  I have not used
> > them, so I couldn't tell you how to set it up.
> > 
> The msttcorefonts package is no longer functional.  It
> was basically a script that downloaded the fonts from
> the Microsoft site, where they were freely available.
> 
> You can find the same fonts here:
> <http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/>
> 
> It looks legit (a copy of the original EULA is linked
> and it seems to allow redistribution).
> 
> Under Debian, I found the easiest thing to do was to
> just download the .exe files and install manually by
> creating the fonts.scale files then using the
> mkfontdir program.  (This is from memory, so actual
> procedure may differ just a little).
> 
> A much easier way is to copy the fonts from an
> existing Windows install (fonts.scale etc still
> required but no SF download).  I only went through the
> hassle of doing it from SF to convince myself I could
> delete Windows without losing nice TT fonts.  
> 
> Cheers
> Tony
> 
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