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There many reasons why you might want to use Microsoft Fonts, the largest reason is going to be compatibility. Lets face it some people are not going to quit using Microsoft Products, no matter what.  Installing the Microsoft TrueType fonts will make OpenOffice more compatible and will improve the look of some web pages (Some developers actually develop for Windows Only). In order to use the Micosoft TrueType fonts is to install the msttcorefonts package like so. Before you run this command you will need to enable the “Universe” components in apt, note this was done by default in Feisty but not in Jaunty.

    # sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

The TrueType Microsoft fonts provided by the package include:

* 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
* Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
* Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
* Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
* Webdings

Installing the msttcorefonts package will give you the core fonts, but if there are other TrueType fonts you need installed, just copying the font files to the ~/.fonts/ directory will install them for you.

After installing new fonts, you will have to log out and log in again to be able to see and use the new fonts or, if you want to avoid this, you can regenerate the fonts cache by issuing the following command

    # sudo fc-cache -fv

There you have it, Have a Goodn’