[Linux-disciples] Fonts and such

[Jason A. Smith]

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 15:39 -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:

> More specifically in answer to Jason's question: at least
> until a little while ago, you could download some Microsoft
> fonts that were released to the web under a lenient license,
> and are still floating around under that old license. Under
> Debian, I believe the package name is 'msttcorefonts'; you'd
> do
> 
> sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
> 
> See if that does what you want. It's got at least a few
> basic fonts in there that everyone needs -- e.g., Verdana
> and Georgia (both designed for Microsoft by the famed
> typographer Matthew Carter).

Ok, that handles that. I can now render my website's arial type. That
was painless...

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