Wanted Microsoft fonts for Opensuse 11

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#1

Where can I get Microsoft fonts for Opensuse 11?

I couldnt find any in the repository…

#2

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

#3

Wow! that was quick, thanx chum…

#4

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

#5

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

#6

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.

g

#7

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

#8

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

#9

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.