Missing Fonts (for OpenOffice primarily)

Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 21:09:05 UTC 2010


On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> Thanks, I'm installing that now.  It looks like mscorefonts-installer is
going to do it for me,
but I'm installing the whole show.



-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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