Missing Fonts (for OpenOffice primarily)

[Tom H]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:48 PM, 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.

Install "ttf-liberation" and you will have RH-designed fonts that are
the same as MS's Arial, Courier, and Times.

There's also another package with "corefonts" or "mscorefonts" in its name.