Writer Vs Word

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2008/7/5, Steven Davies-Morris <sdavmor at systemstheory.net>:
>
> Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > 2008/7/5, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net <mailto:glgxg at sbcglobal.net>>:
>
> >
> >     On 07/04/2008 12:34 PM, Carmelo Ricardo wrote:
> >      > Hi everyone!!!!
> >      >
> >      >
> >      >    I am a Ubuntu user and my question is:
> >      >
> >      >             Is there a way to use in Linux Ubunt the Openoffice
> >     Writer with
> >      > Microsoft Word fonts in it???I mean like Arial, Times New  Roman
> >     and so
> >      > on....???
> >      >
> >      >
> >      >     Thanks in advice!!!
> >      >
> >      >
> >
> >
> >      From a terminal (Applications|Accessories|Terminal):
> >
> >     sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
> >     sudo fc-cache -f -v
> >
> >     This might also help if you have additional questions:
> >     http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Font-FAQ
> >
> >     To find/add other fonts in Ubuntu you can open the Synaptic package
> >     manager and search on fonts, or Arial etc.
> >
> >
> >
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> > I just wanted to add that some fonts are missing in msttcorefonts, such
> > as Arial Narrow. However, you can make it look a lot like Arial Narrow
> > by just making Arial a bit narrower.
> >
> > Also, you can install FontForge and edit existing fonts and even create
> > your own. Very useable if you, like me for example, have a non English
> > main language, such as Swedish, German or whatever and you download a
>
> > font that lacks characters like åäöÅÄÖüÜ etc. Just copy aeou to
>
> > these places and add dots and stuff to them. Okay, that will require
>
> > some work, but if the font is nice it could be worth it…
>
> >
> > If you have a Windows license you can just copy the .ttf files you want
> > to the proper folder in Ubuntu, and you will automagically have those
> > fonts (I am not sure about what the laws says about this, however, so I
> > didn't do this, but it might depend on what kind of WIndows license you
> > have or something like that).
> >
> > Johnny Rosenberg
>
>
> I believe the fonts that are missing are core fonts that were never
> made available for free distribution by MS.  Which is why they aren't
> included in msttcorefonts.
>
> Thanks for the HU! on FontForge.
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Wow, I can see that the characters I mentioned above are heavily distorted.
I guess someone does not use UTF-8…  :o

What does "HU!" mean?
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