Well, there are many techniques to import the fonts of MS-Office in OpenOffice 2.4… I’ve seen them work in Fedora and Ubuntu.. And the methods are generic too so it’ll work on any platform… I am posting this for people who have tough jobs printing .doc files when they are using Linux…
1. There are fonts contained in the fonts folder of WINDOWS, copy that to the /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ by using the following command
anshuman@anshuman-laptop:~$ cp /media/c/WINOWS/Fonts/* /usr/share/fonts/truetype/
Please note that the path may be a bit different. After issuing this command, u can use ur favourite MS fonts in openoffice too.
2. U can also install Microsoft Core Fonts from Synaptic or Add/Remove…
So guys having printing problem can use this very well to get there jobs ready…..
There’ll definitely be some difference in the look of MS-Office and OpenOffice but its still worth a try…
Cheers….Happy Printing…
Filed under: Technical | Tagged: fonts, MS-office, openoffice
Nice post dude!! I do not recommend windows fonts ( but for some of our lab purposes, it is required)
There is a mistake in anshuman@anshuman-laptop:~$ cp /media/c/WINOWS/Fonts/* /usr/share/fonts/truetype/
you need to add a sudo in the front.