MS Fonts offline

[Arun Shrimali]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Chris Mohler<cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Fred Roller<froller at tnclimited.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 14:10 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Chris Mohler<cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Fred Roller<froller at tnclimited.com> wrote:
>>> >> On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 11:09 -0700, Ronnie wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> >>Is there any to load MS fonts on Ubuntu 9.04 offline<<
>>> >
>>> >> I am assuming the system in question does not have internet access.
>>> >> This being the case, from a system which does have download capability
>>> >> go to the following site:
>>> >>
>>> >> http://packages.ubuntu.com/uk/intrepid/all/msttcorefonts/download
>>> >>
>>> >> Download msttcorefonts_2.5_all.deb or the latest version to a thumbdrive
>>> >> or some other medium.  Its only about 31k.  Return to the isolated
>>> >> system and insert the disk.  Double click the file and an installer
>>> >> should start.  Hope this helps.
>>> >
>>> > Yeah - but doesn't that .deb download an archive file from somewhere?
>>> > IIRC, installing the .deb calls a script that does a wget from
>>> > mickeysoft.
>>> >
>>> > I would:
>>> >
>>> > On an online machine, download the .deb, expand the .deb file and grep
>>> > around for MS or wget - find that archive, download it, carry it to
>>> > the offline machine, then extract the contents into /home/<me>/.fonts
>>>
>>> OK - it's not quite that simple.  The fonts are hosted on sourceforge
>>> and they are in .exe format.  I have 'cabextract' installed on my
>>> system - but I'm not sure if it's a default package (I doubt it).
>>> 'cabextract' can be used to extract the font files from the .exe files
>>> though once they are downloaded from SF:
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/
>>>
>>> Yuck ;)
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>
>> Thank's for the assist Chris.  Couldn't they also just pull the fonts
>> from /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ on a system which does
>> have msttcorefonts already installed and paste them to the same on the
>> isolated system? (just thought of that) :P  May need to create the
>> corefont directory but, beside that, a cut and paste might work just as
>> easy.
>
> Sure - if the online system is *nix. ;)
>
> Chris
>
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Dear All,

Thanks for the all support, but If I am not wrong, there is no handy
tool which can load ms fonts on ofline ubuntu machine. Can any expert
person work on it to help lots of ubuntu users ...................

regards

Arun