microsoft fonts on linux

Even after moving to Linux, you may still feel the need to install Microsoft TrueType Fonts so that documents in OpenOffice appear slightly more like how they used to when created from within Microsoft Word. There are also benefits surfing the web as many website designers produce websites with Microsoft Fonts in mind, because of this its not a bad idea to keep a little bit of Microsoft still in your life!

The Truetype Microsoft fonts provided by the package include:

• 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

installing

To achieve this all your need to do is install the msttcorefonts package, to do this we can download the package using the apt-get repository by typing in the following command at the terminal:

This will give you the core ms fonts, however if there are other Microsoft TrueType fonts that you want to have installed, then all you need to do is copy font files to the ~/.fonts/ directory.

To make the new fonts take effect, you will need to log out and then log back into your desktop environment, you can regenerate your systems fonts cache by using the following command again at the terminal: