Re: Truetype fonts in mozilla/galeon
On Friday 13 September 2002 03:46 pm, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> --DvB <imasu@earthlink.net> wrote
>
> (on Friday, 13 September 2002, 02:27 PM -0500):
> > Nathan Weston <elbows@spamcop.net> writes:
> > > Does anyone have truetype fonts working in mozilla and/or galeon?
> > > I have followed the directions in
> > > /usr/share/doc/mozilla/enabling_truetype.html, but when I start mozilla
> > > it still has the same fonts. The fonts dialog under preferences does
> > > not list any truetype fonts.
> >
> > I got TT fonts working in mozilla by installing msttcorefonts via apt
> > and following the directions in the True Type Fonts on Debian tutorial:
> > http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/xfree4_tt.html
>
> Except that the msttcorefonts package uses wget to grab a .cab archive
> of the MS fonts from the MS website... and they discontinued the free
> distribution of these fonts a month or two back, and the license terms
> did not allow for redistribution.
>
> Any other ways out there?
> --Matthew
The MS fonts may have been mirrored somewhere... or you can just find a friend
with windows and copy their fonts (which is not technically legal, I
suppose). In either case you have to install them yourself, but that's not
particularly difficult.
Nathan
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