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dtw

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From: UK

Registered: 2004-08-03

Posts: 4,439

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[fonts] MS Vista fonts

If someone wanted to download the vistafonts.zip, which has been "leaked" from MS and is floating around the internet, one could, theoretically use the following PKGBUILD and install file to install them.  Not that I would encourage that of course - but it's up to you:

# Contributor: dibblethewrecker dibblethewrecker.at.jiwe.dot.org
pkgname=ttf-vista-fonts
pkgver=0.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A selection of new MS Vista Fonts"
url=""
license=""
depends=()
makedepends=()
install=ttf-vista-fonts.install
source=(vistafonts.zip)

build() {
  cd $startdir/src
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
  for font in {Calibri,Cambria,Candara,Consolas,Constantia,Corbel} ; do
      cp $startdir/src/$font/* $startdir/pkg/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
  done
}

# arg 1:  the new package version
post_install() {
    basedir=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts

    cd $basedir

    echo "Rebuilding font cache..."
    fc-cache -fv
    echo "...done."

    for dir in TTF
    do
    
    echo "Rebuilding font index in $dir..."
    cd $dir
    mkfontscale
    mkfontdir
    rm -f encodings.dir
    ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir encodings.dir
    echo "...done."
    
    cd $basedir
    done
    
    echo "Fonts refreshed!"
}

# arg 1:  the new package version
# arg 2:  the old package version
post_upgrade() {
    basedir=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts

    cd $basedir

    echo "Rebuilding font cache..."
    fc-cache -fv
    echo "...done."

    for dir in TTF
    do
    
    echo "Rebuilding font index in $dir..."
    cd $dir
    mkfontscale
    mkfontdir
    rm -f encodings.dir
    ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir encodings.dir
    echo "...done."
    
    cd $basedir
    done
    
    echo "Fonts refreshed!  Press any key to exit."
}

# arg 1:  the old package version
pre_remove() {
  /bin/true
}

# arg 1:  the old package version
post_remove() {
  /bin/true
}

op=$1
shift
$op $*

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: [fonts] MS Vista fonts

And we would want to do this why...?

phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: [fonts] MS Vista fonts

And we would want to do this why...?

I agree... we're gonna need some screenshots... that is if someone should happen upon them... hosted at imageshack...

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: [fonts] MS Vista fonts

And we would want to do this why...?

Because they're probably a decent set of fonts.

Chances are that they are *probably* on your favourite torrent sites. Mine is thepiratebay.org

iphitus

jellywerker

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From: Sunny Seattle

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 286

Re: [fonts] MS Vista fonts

lol

Cam

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From: Brisbane, Aus

Registered: 2004-12-21

Posts: 658

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Re: [fonts] MS Vista fonts

Shit, they'd probably be a lot bigger than I thought some fonts would be!

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neri

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From: Victoria, Canada

Registered: 2003-05-04

Posts: 553

Re: [fonts] MS Vista fonts

And we would want to do this why...?

I agree... we're gonna need some screenshots... that is if someone should
happen upon them... hosted at imageshack...

There you go:
http://www.justdreams.de/archlinux/images/fontTests/

personally I think they are pretty nice, also I like to have a nicely build
Monospace font there, but speakiing of readability Bitstream Vera Sans
Mono definetaly outperforms Consolas at smaller sizes.

Calibri is a nice sans-serif one for small place. Candara is really well done
in my eyes, quite a pleasure to read it. While Corbel ist the bread an
butter font probably replacing Verdana.

-neri