hi everybody,

i would like to install additional fonts for openoffice, since the base openoffice installation does not offer some fonts i use (d) heavily under windows e.g. verdana.

but how do i do that?

it seems there arent any additional font for openoffice at all!? i searched the openoffice homepage and did a google search like

"openoffice" + "additional fonts" + download

but didnt find anything....

to me it seems there are no additional fonts avalaible, is this true?
if not, where can i get and how do i install them?

thx for every help

Take a look at my first post in this thread.

Thanks, I've been trying to remember that procedure myself. Just a note, though - if you install a lot of additional fonts X will take longer to load, When I copied my entire windows fonts directory (about 150 fonts) it added about 20 seconds to KDE's startup time.

you posted:

Download the fonts or get them from MS windows. Make a directory in /usr/share/fonts called msttf. Copy the truetype fonts there and do "mkfontdir" and "mkfontscale" in that directory (/usr/share/fonts/msttf). Log out and in again and your fonts will be ready for use. If you use GNOME, you may need to copy the fonts to ~/.fonts as well.

hmm, sorry, but i dont find a simple file containing the ms-fonts. ms discontinued free download of their fonts.
what i did find was an installation instruction at http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ and downloads at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ease_id=105355

but the installation seems quite complicated, at least for a newbie......:-)

so my question is:

by posting: "Download the fonts or get them from MS windows. Make a directory........."

did you mean the installation way depicted in the urls above or is their really just a simple font file which i can download
and copy in /usr/share/fonts/msttf and then follow the rest of your instructions?
if yes, do you know where i can find that files? i only found the above posted links........

thx so far for the help

"Download them"means find an archive file (zip, rar, etc) or each individual font file from the internet. "from MS windows" means copy them from an existing C:\WINDOWS\fonts directory. What I did before was copy them from an existing windows installation, onto a disk, then copy them from the disk into the directory I chose in linux.

Thats what I meant and your method is what I usually do. I copy all the fonts from the Windows font directory to a USB flash drive or CD and use the method in my post to install.

The installation is not complicated, just ask if you get stuck.

copying the fonts from my win2k-installation worked fine!
what a simple solution!

thx!