[wellylug] How to get Linux fonts into Windows

[Daniel Pittman]

pcreso at pcreso.com writes:

This is a little old, but no one else answered, so...

> I've got some OOo presentations I'd like to display under Windows, but
> were created under Linux.
>
> Linux (at least this distro) comes with a few Andy fonts which I like
> for presentations.
>
> OOo on Windows does not have this font. Is there any easy way to
> migrate it from Linux to Windows?

First, check the licensing attached to the fonts and make sure you are
legally permitted to do this.[1]

Then, life is trivial: find the font files using your package management
tools, which will likely be in TTF or Type1 format these days.

Put them somewhere you can access on the Windows box, and then copy
those files into your %WINDIR%\fonts folder, typically c:\windows\fonts.

Windows will install the fonts, restart your applications[2], and viola,
you have access to the fonts.

Regards,
        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  You should be fine in most cases, but some software has specific
     distribution, attribution or other limitations that make it
     distributable or installable but not transferrable.

[2]  Most Windows applications cache the font list once and never check
     again; this may actually be a toolkit behaviour or something.