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#1 2010-07-26 07:05:06
- FathisAeril
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Fonts
There any font meta-packages out there guys? besides the MS fonts, Only asking because I happened to open up open office word the other day, and noticed that I could prob count the number of fonts installed within a couple seconds. I do random work here and there for friends and family, and thought about just copying over a lot of fonts from ubuntu / windows into Arch, but I first wanted to check for meta packages. One font that came to mind in particular was the vladimir script font.
Again, No probs with just copying them over, but I wanted to check witht he community that was actually just the best way to do it.
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#2 2010-07-26 07:24:18
- JackH79
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Re: Fonts
pacman -Ss fonthttp://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O … _Search=Go
You could also have a look at this:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration
or google and install manually.
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#3 2010-07-26 08:30:52
- karol
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Re: Fonts
Not every fonts that works in Windows will work on Linux.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort … =&limit=50
TeXLive has loads of fonts but I don't know if you know how to use them.
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#4 2010-07-26 08:48:41
- bernarcher
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Re: Fonts
TeXLive has loads of fonts but I don't know if you know how to use them.
They are bound to (La)TeX, i.e. DVI-bound display. TeX fonts use their own description system, see for instance here which is not directly compatible with TrueType and Type 1 fonts.
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#5 2010-07-26 08:51:58
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Re: Fonts
karol wrote:TeXLive has loads of fonts but I don't know if you know how to use them.
They are bound to (La)TeX, i.e. DVI-bound display. TeX fonts use their own description system, see for instance here which is not directly compatible with TrueType and Type 1 fonts.
That's right but
I do random work here and there for friends and family
I have no idea what OP does with those fonts, so TeXLive may suit him / her just fine.
And FathisAeril, please choose a more informative topic title.
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