installing msttcorefonts on Trisquel

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Embracer245
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See, i have a little bit of a dilemma here at school. See, GNU/Linux and other Free-sw operating systems is not supported at my school at the moment. I need to use the microsoft fonts in order to get my essay to work on the teacher's MS Windows machines. i tried installing sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts, but it only gave me a error of E: Unable to locate package msttcorefonts and it's not in the Application Repository either. Can you help before i fail my subject?

BugRep
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If you can, use a PDF format. This way, the fonts will be stored inside the document, and the document will be viewable on every system.

tomlukeywood
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i heard that fonts are just as complicated as software in some cases and so non-free fonts are like running non-free software?

if so isn’t including non-free fonts in a PDF doc quite bad?

*i have never programed a font before!

onpon4
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Iscritto: 05/30/2012

I think BugRep is suggesting using the fonts on Trisquel, but embedding them so Windows users don't get their formatting screwed up.

tomlukeywood
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ok but if you download a pdf file from the internet and open it and it contains non-free fonts

is this the same as executing non-free software?

Legimet
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Iscritto: 12/10/2013

Yes, I was actually thinking about this a while ago, and I don't know how you would avoid it.

moxalt
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Iscritto: 06/19/2015

Is it really? What's the difference between non-free fonts and other non-free
artwork?

moxalt
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Surely vector font files are simply instructions for the computer to draw an
artwork (the font), just as bitmaps are just an array of bits representing the
pixels of the image? I'm surprised any distinction was found between the two-
they seem to just be different ways to achieve more or less the same effect.
Both bitmap and SVG files are actually data files that require a program to
view them- how are either programs themselves? Does the FSF agree that vector
images are software and not artwork?

onpon4
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You'd have to ask them, but the FSF website suggests to me that they don't agree that font files are "programs". At the same time, though, they think it essential that fonts be libre for a different reason, that they serve a practical purpose.

Legimet
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The US courts decided that, I believe. But I'm not the expert on such things :P

onpon4
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More specifically, U.S. courts have found vector-based font files to be copyrightable, in the process referring to them as "programs". (For context, fonts themselves, i.e. the shapes of the glyphs, are long established as not copyrightable in the U.S.)

Embracer245
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I hope it works, because failing PLT (or any subject) is the last thing i want to happen.

davidnotcoulthard (non verificato)
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There's this fake MS Fonts package in the AUR that creates aliases fooling the OS into thinking fonts like Arial are present.

Ahem, getting them to work on Trisquel...........someone? Anyone? Pleeease? :)

lembas
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This is a common problem, fortunately it's already solved https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts

(also available in the Trisquel repos, might even be installed by default)

t3g
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Legimet
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Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croscore_fonts.

And if you're doing this in LibreOffice, you can just type "Times New Roman" as the font. You don't need to actually have the font installed.

And I've always used Liberation Serif. No teacher has ever noticed.

moxalt
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Iscritto: 06/19/2015

Just use the Liberation series of fonts- check in LibreOffice (or whatever
office suite you use) to see if they're installed already. Liberation Serif has
the same metrics as Times New Roman (and will be printed as such by MS Word)
while Liberation Sans has the same metrics as the Arial series. These fonts
will also be printed as Arial.

I have the same issue at school- but thankfully MS Word prints similar
substitute fonts as the ones selected in LibreOffice. MS Word is also pretty
decent at handling/printing the ODT format now (if not at actually making
them), so there should be no problems on that front.

Do what I do. Use Liberation Sans. If the fonts aren't installed, just apt-get
install fonts-liberation. Good luck. Most schools (mine included) are insanely
hostile places to free software.

Embracer245
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Iscritto: 08/24/2015

I need to use the impact font however. Does any of the free font packages have it?

onpon4
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Iscritto: 05/30/2012

Usually, font requirements are for particular metrics of the font, not for the exact look of the font. I just tried it; if you type "Impact" into the font field of LibreOffice Writer, it chooses a font. I don't know what font it is, but it's probably similar enough to Impact to work.

If you don't feel sure, ask your teacher, preferably by showing them the paper and asking whether it looks good. My experience has been that most teachers don't mind as long as it's close enough. If they mention that it looks a little different, explain that you don't have Impact on your computer, but that your office suite directed you to this font when you typed "Impact" into the font field, and that it should be about the same in terms of size.

davidnotcoulthard (non verificato)
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https://www.google.com/fonts/download?kit=bpyoYCQ8heZxoD7Ok70jTQ (download, extract/unzip, put font files in /usr/share/fonts, perform sudo fc-cache, try the font)