[Hoary] Fonts in Openoffice

[Byron Saltysiak]

I installed ubuntu last night myself and I had to install the MS
corefonts to get text to show up on most Flash sites. Anyway if you
want to do that you can just use apt-get:

apt-get install msttcorefonts


Enjoy!

On 6/20/05, hagen van rissenbeck <news4didascali at gmx.net> wrote:
> >>> I've been somewhat unhappy with the fonts in Openoffice.  Not so much
> >>> with what is available for the document, but the fonts used in the
> >>> menus.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I've got the same problems: Appearance of umlauts in menues is awful
> >>
> >> I tried to solve it, using localeconf - no change - same behaviour
> >> after restart.
> >>
> 
> Graham wrote:
> 
> > Well, the best way around this, in my experience, is to use the
> > Microsoft Core Fonts.  If you've ever used an official version of
> > Windows you have probably agreed to the Microsoft EULA, so you can use
> > them.  However, Microsoft have pulled them from their web pages so the
> > only source for Linux users that I know of is at:
> >
> > http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
> >
> 
> They are already installed, I think that ubuntu's ooo-version differs
> from the original package, am I right?
> 
> Hagen
> 
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