Missing Fonts (for OpenOffice primarily)

[Colin Law]

On 5 October 2010 21:48, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I keep importing documents that I composed on other systems, to find that
> fonts
> like Courier New and Times New Roman are not there, and get mangled in the
> substitution of something that is present. I can live with Courier 10 Pitch,
> but it's
> not what OO uses on Ubuntu when faced with Courier New, so I have a lot of
> editing to do.
>
> I'm assuming there's a font package I'm missing, at least I hope that's all
> it is.

Have you tried installing ubuntu-restricted-extras?  It provides a
bunch of fonts I think.

Colin