TTF font support

**Compunuts** · 05-22-2005, 07:18 AM

Quick question for Ubuntu Horay 64.

What package do I need to install in order to get TTF fonts working? How to check if it's already enabled? Or how to install new TTF fonts Ubuntu way? I have a special TTF font need to install for a forum.

TIA

**shebang** · 05-22-2005, 01:44 PM

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...;highlight=TTF

Quoting from the reply:

You need "universe" in your sources.list

Code:

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

Code:

$ sudo apt-cache show msttcorefonts
Package: msttcorefonts
Priority: optional
Section: contrib/x11
Installed-Size: 156
Maintainer: Tollef Fog Heen &amp;lt;tfheen@debian.org&amp;gt;
Architecture: all
Version: 1.1.11
Depends: wget (&amp;gt;= 1.9.1-4), cabextract (&amp;gt;= 0.1-2), xutils (&amp;gt;= 4.0.2), debconf (&amp;gt;= 1.2.0), defoma, debianutils (&amp;gt;= 1.7)
Recommends: x-ttcidfont-conf
Filename: pool/universe/m/msttcorefonts/msttcorefonts_1.1.11_all.deb
Size: 21566
MD5sum: 69a1bb2e1f66f03a5b3748685d9bd973
Description: Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts
 This package allows for easy installation of the Microsoft True Type
 Core Fonts for the Web including:
 .
   Andale Mono
   Arial Black
   Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   Comic Sans MS (Bold)
   Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   Impact
   Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   Webdings
 .
 You will need an Internet connection to download these fonts if you
 don&#039;t already have them.

Edit: Here's another link but this is not as helpful: http://ubuntuguide.org/#extrafonts

HTH..

**Compunuts** · 05-22-2005, 07:15 PM

That seems to be not in 64 bits version.

Code:

compunuts@sienna64:/usr/bin$ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package msttcorefonts is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package msttcorefonts has no installation candidate
compunuts@sienna64:/usr/bin$

Even though I have universe in my sources.list

Code:

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the &#039;universe&#039;
## repository.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe

**Compunuts** · 05-22-2005, 07:18 PM

One more thing ..

I don't actually NEED MS TTF fonts. I need a way to support TTF font so that I can use my own TTF font under Ubuntu Horay64.

TIA

**Compunuts** · 05-24-2005, 02:59 AM

Well, turns out, TTF font support is already built into Ubuntu. All I have to do is manually add the fonts to the "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice/" location and all is good.

Thanks for the link though. I followed the forum's discussion and found the answer.