Arial font substitution within programs?

jim.thornton · 05-15-2012, 12:01 PM

I have a supplier that has specified Arial as the font within their PDF's. Unfortunately in order to open them, I have to open a Virtualbox VM running Windows and then Print the PDF to another PDF saving it in my Linux environment.

Is there a way that I can "Map" the Arial font to Liberation Sans automatically within Linux?

I'm running Linux Mint 11 (katya).

teckk · 05-15-2012, 05:50 PM

Why don't you put Arial.ttf into your fonts directory. Somewhere like /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Arial.TTF Look for your own fonts directory on Mint.

If you are running windows in a VirtualBox then you already have it.

jim.thornton · 05-15-2012, 10:42 PM

I can't believe I didn't think of that. Thanks!