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murkus

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From: Europe/Helsinki

Registered: 2004-03-19

Posts: 254

corefonts & new cleartype fonts from MS

Is it possible to get latest ClearType fonts included in Vista with the same idea as in the ttf-ms-fonts package installs older MS fonts?

Please see this post.

cheers,
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mutlu_inek

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From: all over the place

Registered: 2006-11-18

Posts: 684

Re: corefonts & new cleartype fonts from MS

Thanks for the hint on how to get the fonts. I created a PKGBUILD and uploaded it to AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … =1&ID=8475

Please comment on how it works for you.

If you like it, please vote for it in AUR.

Master One

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 249

Re: corefonts & new cleartype fonts from MS

Just curious, under which circumstances / what for would you use these fonts?

aquila_deus

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From: Taipei

Registered: 2005-07-02

Posts: 348

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Re: corefonts & new cleartype fonts from MS

Just curious, under which circumstances / what for would you use these fonts?

Calibri - too narrow, badly rendered crap
Cambria - good serif font, nice for web pages
Candara - good sans font, but numbers are screwed....
Consolas - good monospaced font. I use it for terminal and editors
Corbel - strokes are too thin....

Microsoft JhengHei & YaHei - Great chinese fonts, much better than arial unicode and all other free/non-free ones. But they're renderedly badly on windows 2003

Master One

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 249

Re: corefonts & new cleartype fonts from MS

So doesn't really sound promising, I don't really care about anything from Microsoft, and I just only use ttf-ms-fonts for having websites shown correctly and ttf-bitstream-vera for the rest.

mutlu_inek

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From: all over the place

Registered: 2006-11-18

Posts: 684

Re: corefonts & new cleartype fonts from MS

I get a lot of Word documents from others that I read/edit/print with OpenOffice. It can be quite annoying if I do not have the necessary fonts.

I myself do not integrate the MS fonts in documents, though. As you say, the fonts are not of a very high quality. And I am glad that I have not yet seen them on the web. I certainly did not intend to proliferate this stuff. Maybe it was not a good idea. I just thought having the option to read documents accurately may be good for others, too.

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

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Re: corefonts & new cleartype fonts from MS

There's a vista-fonts package in AUR that includes these fonts.

murkus

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From: Europe/Helsinki

Registered: 2004-03-19

Posts: 254

Re: corefonts & new cleartype fonts from MS

Just curious, under which circumstances / what for would you use these fonts?

I believe as Vista is released the fonts will be also commonly used. Not a bad idea to have the fonts to see things as intended..

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stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: corefonts & new cleartype fonts from MS

There's a vista-fonts package in AUR that includes these fonts.

Yes, that's what the second post says

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kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: corefonts & new cleartype fonts from MS

The fonts are available here:-

http://www.soweirdproductions.com/wp-co … nghorn.zip

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mutlu_inek

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From: all over the place

Registered: 2006-11-18

Posts: 684

Re: corefonts & new cleartype fonts from MS

The fonts are available here:-

http://www.soweirdproductions.com/wp-co … nghorn.zip

Amusing is this quote from the site: "The Microsoft legal voles have contacted me, and apparently these fonts are NOT a free taster of the wonders of Vista. In short, they have to be removed. So, sorry Microsoft, and sorry, those of you who wanted to preview the shape of things to come. They are now removed."
http://www.soweirdproductions.com/?p=393