[ubuntu-za] Fonts

[Bill Cairns]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't understand how my fonts work and wonder if anyone can explain them ...
>
> When I start a new document under OO Writer, my default font is Arial
> - great - just what I want.
>
> But when I am sent a document in, say, Times New Roman from MS Word, I
> cannot change the font to Arial - Arial does not appear under the
> options in the pull-down font menu. In fact, if I paste a paragraph
> from the Word document into the middle of a document that I have
> written, I can't change the paragraph to Arial even though it is
> surrounded by Arial text to the top and bottom.
>
> I don't have this problem when running OO on Windows.
>
> Bill
>

I followed Sudhashen's advice and installed the Microsoft Fonts
(Mshcorefonts). The problem seems to be solved.

Thanks Sudhashen - and the others who helped.

Bill