For a time, Microsoft made these fonts available free of
charge on its web site; although they are no longer available directly from Microsoft,
you can get them from Fontconfig.org under Microsoft??™s fairly simple licensing
terms. So, if your distribution does not include these fonts, you can easily add them.
Installing these fonts makes it possible to view Word and Excel documents and web
pages created under Windows as they were originally designed. Mozilla, Firefox,
OpenOffice, and other applications can all use these.
Before installing these fonts, you need to review and agree to the terms of the license
agreement at http://fontconfig.org/webfonts/Licen.TXT, and you also need to obtain a
copy of the cabextract program to extract the fonts from archives created in
Microsoft??™s proprietary CAB format. cabextract can be found in many repositories,
or it can be obtained directly from the project web page: http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/
cabextract.php.
Once you??™ve agreed to the license terms and installed cabextract, download and
install the fonts:
# wget http://fontconfig.org/webfonts/webfonts.tar.gz
# tar xvzf webfonts.tar.gz
# cd msfonts
# cabextract *.exe
# mkdir /usr/share/fonts/microsoft
# cp *.
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