Ubuntu's OpenOffice formatting changed from XP's OO formatting

[Mario Vukelic]

On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 14:51 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> 
> Did you google for "how to install windows xp fonts in ubuntu"? The
> first 
> entry looks quite promising to me:
> <http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/09/09/installing-microsoft-fonts/>

Though that really only talks about the "core fonts" that MS released at
one point, and later unsuccessfully tried to retract.

For other fonts, as long as they are TrueType, it should suffice to copy
them to /home/<user>/.fonts (to make them available for one user). To
have them systemwide, you must copy the file to /usr/share/fonts and
then rebuild your font cache with: sudo fc-cache -f -v. (IIRC Gnome
plans to make this easier in the future).

And yes, this info was easily found by googling for "install fonts
ubuntu"


CAVEAT: you probably need to have a proper license to the fonts to be
able to do this legally.