Wanted Microsoft fonts for Opensuse 11

**CurvyTail** · 02-Jul-2008, 06:00

Where can I get Microsoft fonts for Opensuse 11?

I couldnt find any in the repository...

**Magic31** · 02-Jul-2008, 06:07

These fonts are restricted so you won't find them in the main repros.

Have a look here : Installing Microsoft Fonts on openSUSE 11.0 - openSUSE Forums

And a link to the source : Ben Kevan’s Blog > Installing Microsoft Fonts on openSUSE 11.0

Cheers,
Wj

**CurvyTail** · 02-Jul-2008, 06:15

Wow! that was quick, thanx chum...

**EarthMind** · 02-Jul-2008, 08:44

Or just search for "verdana" in the software search section on the openSUSE website and you'll get results with "webcore" in their name, these include: verdana, arial, comic sans ms, times new roman and many more

**Dexter1979** · 02-Jul-2008, 10:32

Originally Posted by EarthMind

Or just search for "verdana" in the software search section on the openSUSE website and you'll get results with "webcore" in their name, these include: verdana, arial, comic sans ms, times new roman and many more

Or just copy them off a active windows partition if you have one in your pc or your network

**greenmachine** · 03-Jul-2008, 14:05

For the most basic fonts, just use the openSUSE 10.3 script found at:

Index of /update/10.3/scripts

Run 'fetchmsttfonts.sh' as root.

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**revdjenk** · 11-Aug-2008, 19:58

Actually, just doing a comparison "side-by-side" as it were, the almost exact match height, width and weight to the Times New Roman and Arial fonts are:

Nimbus Roman No9 L
Nimbus Sans

the Liberation fonts are a close second.

God Bless
Doug

**Darkelve78** · 11-Aug-2008, 23:44

I do not know how good a match it is, but I like the Bitstream-vera font set too.

Originally Posted by revdjenk

Actually, just doing a comparison "side-by-side" as it were, the almost exact match height, width and weight to the Times New Roman and Arial fonts are:

Nimbus Roman No9 L
Nimbus Sans

the Liberation fonts are a close second.

God Bless
Doug

**john_hudson** · 12-Aug-2008, 12:42

Originally Posted by revdjenk

Actually, just doing a comparison "side-by-side" as it were, the almost exact match height, width and weight to the Times New Roman and Arial fonts are:

Nimbus Roman No9 L
Nimbus Sans

Doug

That was the point of the Nimbus fonts; but if you send things to MS Word users in Nimbus, they may not always look 'right' - so I always use the MS fonts for things I am sending to MS users.