Adding Fonts

[Martin Maney]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 09:46:13PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 13:35 +0200, Bastian Doetsch wrote:
> > I got the original Microsoft TTF Fonts on my XP cd. Is there any tool
> > that can import them for me available or a wiki or FAQ how to do it?
> 
> Applications > Run Application...
> Type in 'fonts:///' and hit enter
> Now just drag'n'drop! :-)

The msttcorefonts package, rebuilt in Ubuntu, worked swell for me. 
It's the same version that I see in universe's pool, but for some
reason I filed the local build as though I had had to get the source
from elsewhere.  Oh, that's it!  There's no source in the universe
pool, just the deb.  Okay, I'm not going crazy after all.  :-)

Of course that's only an answer for that specific set of fonts, but
MS's uncharacteristic generosity in releasing those fonts semi-freely
has succeeded in making them almost essential for browsing many sites.

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