Installing Microsoft True Type Core Fonts in Fedora 19

Installing
Microsoft True Type Core Fonts in Fedora 19

November 17th, 2013 | Author: Haider
M. al-Khateeb

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Linux distributions such as Fedora does not include any Microsoft TrueType fonts (TTFs) by default. To get these, have a look at the resources and guidelines available from the following sourceforge.net project: http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
First, Microsoft TTFs package includes the following font-families:

Andale Mono

Arial Black/Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Comic Sans MS (Bold)
Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Impact
Tahoma
Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Webdings

Second, the following steps must be followed to get the fonts added:

Make sure the following is installed:

yum install rpm-build cabextract ttmkfdir

Download the latest msttcorefonts spec from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net and build an rpm file

Example:

cd /tmp wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.5-1.spec rpmbuild -ba msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

The RPM file will be stored in: /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/, install it using

rpm -ivh /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.5-1.noarch.rpm

Third, restart your system to get this working. I used my gnome-tweak-tool to change my default fonts to Arial and Times New Roman.
And finally, the path to Fedora’s fonts directory is /usr/share/fonts in which the newly added fonts can be located now. Further, any ttf font files can be added directly to a (new) folder following
this path, Google Fonts: http://www.google.com/fonts is a very good resource for these. If a new ttf file is added, refresh the system using fc-cache
-v and enjoy!


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