Installing Microsoft Fonts on openSUSE 11.0

[stefan1975]

well i use word documents and view *lots* of webpages and I never had any issues whatsoever using liberation fonts. I also use nimbus fonts (from suse) but redhat's are better imho and they are metric compatible with mikkeysoft fonts.

Liberation fonts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

but your milage may vary,
stefan

[some-guy]

Originally Posted by stefan1975

well i use word documents and view *lots* of webpages and I never had any issues whatsoever using liberation fonts. I also use nimbus fonts (from suse) but redhat's are better imho and they are metric compatible with mikkeysoft fonts.

Liberation fonts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

but your milage may vary,
stefan

Mileage Varies

[Lysdestic]

It's all a matter of taste, really. My logic is, if you have a windows install somwhere, why not? Better to have them at your disposal if you need them then to not.

[dragonbite]

Originally Posted by stefan1975

why use mickeysoft fonts at all? they are not free-as-in-speech anyway. Personally I use redhat's Liberation fonts which are free and at least as good if not better then mst-core-fonts.

extra bonus is that they are in the standard repos as well:
liberation-fonts-0.1-86.1.noarch.rpm

# zypper install liberation-fonts

stefan

I've used Liberation on both my Linux and Windows systems but sometimes they just don't look good (pixelated, scrunched or not very readable). Have they been updated lately?

[stefan1975]

Originally Posted by dragonbite

I've used Liberation on both my Linux and Windows systems but sometimes they just don't look good (pixelated, scrunched or not very readable). Have they been updated lately?

on F9 I received an updated version the other day but I do not see much of a difference.

Liberation fonts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I do not know what doesn't look good for you but for me they appear great, quite on par with M$ fonts and antialiased as well.

but to each his own. on Arch i even get the ubuntu freetype patches to make my fonts look as good as unbuntu's.

stefan

[darkrabbitmoon]

I have installed the liberation fonts. Anybody know how to get Opera to notice them?

[factotum218]

Originally Posted by GofBorg

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Or you can ween yourself off the M$ addiction and use the supplied fonts.
Personally I think the DejaVu fonts are very nice and more than
adequate in most cases. Linux fonts didn't used to be so nice, but they
have come a long way.

Has nothing to do with a Microsoft addiction. Some of us rely on those fonts as much as Microsoft does. An example for me would be what I do for a living: web design.

I always thought people had more common sense then that.

[Cryovac]

Originally Posted by darkrabbitmoon

I have installed the liberation fonts. Anybody know how to get Opera to notice them?

A simple '# SuSEconfig' should suffice and then add them to your prefs in the browser.

[Cryovac]

Originally Posted by factotum218

I always thought people had more common sense then that.

Don't take it like that...we don't always see the shoes we walk in each day.

[factotum218]

Originally Posted by Cryovac

Don't take it like that...we don't always see the shoes we walk in each day.

Yeah, your right. That was a bit harsh. Sorry about that.