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shak

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Registered: 2009-03-16

Posts: 405

tahoma font won't show up

Hi !

I 've installed ttf-ms-fonts and i can see all microsoft fonts except tahoma . Is tahoma not included to this package ?

Thanks for your help !

bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: tahoma font won't show up

Unfortunately no tahoma

bp:~$ yaourt -Ql ttf-ms-fonts
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/andale32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/arial32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/arialb32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/comic32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/courie32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/georgi32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/impact32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/times32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/trebuc32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/verdan32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /tmp/ttf-ms-fonts/webdin32.exe
ttf-ms-fonts /usr/
ttf-ms-fonts /usr/share/
ttf-ms-fonts /usr/share/licenses/
ttf-ms-fonts /usr/share/licenses/ttf-ms-fonts/
ttf-ms-fonts /usr/share/licenses/ttf-ms-fonts/LICENSE

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tdy

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From: Sacremende

Registered: 2008-12-14

Posts: 440

Re: tahoma font won't show up

"-Ql" doesn't really mean anything for this package since all the fonts are extracted via the post-install script.  /usr/share/fonts/TTF/msfonts.txt just tracks the names of the .exes, but it doesn't actually track everything that's extracted..  I have /usr/share/fonts/TTF/tahoma.ttf on my system, and the timestamps seem to indicate that it's from ttf-ms-fonts.

/usr/share/fonts/TTF/tahoma.ttf:

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 105312 2008-10-05 16:27 tahoma.ttf

/var/log/pacman.log:

[2008-10-05 16:27] installed cabextract (1.2-1)
[2008-10-05 16:27] extracting fonts... done.
[2008-10-05 16:28] rebuilding font cache... done.
[2008-10-05 16:28] installed ttf-ms-fonts (2.0-1)

Last edited by tdy (2009-03-25 18:11:13)

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bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

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Re: tahoma font won't show up

@tdy
My fault. You are completly right. It is here, too.

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Mektub

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From: Lisbon /Portugal

Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 647

Re: tahoma font won't show up

Perhaps this one will help you:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61247

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byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

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Re: tahoma font won't show up

Consider Red Hat's Liberation fonts instead: pacman -S ttf-liberation

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bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

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Re: tahoma font won't show up

From bug report http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12547 it appears that tahoma has been removed from the ms-ttf-fonts package because of licence issues somewhere around the end of january.

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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,549

Re: tahoma font won't show up

I know ttf-ms-fonts-lic has the Tahoma font, at least.