Hi, Can anyone recommend a good how-to on fonts under Debian? I'm having some trouble understanding how fonts work...
Here's my basic problem: for the most part, I'm not really that concerned about fonts -- I'm not a graphic designer and I often don't even really notice what fonts I'm looking at. As far as I can tell (and I haven't looked into it closely) both Opera and Mozilla, as well as most other X applications, display most fonts I come into contact with. But I've recently made the switch over to OpenOffice, and in OO I have real problems. I have a pretty large body of work whch I wrote in M$ word before I saw the light and switched. A lot of it I have to access pretty regularly (my lecture notes, which I revise every year, and a bunch of articles and a book manuscript which are in preparation. When I open them in OpenOffice, almost all of the non-standard characters are prepresented as ?'s -- that goes for "smart" quotes, m- and n-dashes, etc. Now, I understand I shouldn't have used those characters in the first place, but I did, and so now I'm stuck. So, I guess I have to install some new fonts, most probably a bunch of true type fonts, and modify the fontpath somehow. Now I tried using the msttcorefonts package, but it gives an error: msttcorefonts 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 46 not upgraded. Need to get 13.0kB of archives. After unpacking 176kB will be used. Get:1 http://mirror.direct.ca woody/contrib msttcorefonts 1.0.0 [13.0kB] Fetched 13.0kB in 3s (3668B/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package msttcorefonts. (Reading database ... 85664 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking msttcorefonts (from .../msttcorefonts_1.0.0_all.deb) ... Setting up msttcorefonts (1.0.0) ... These fonts are provided by Microsoft "in the interest of cross- platform compatibility". You are free to download these fonts and use them for your own use, but you may not redistribute these fonts without first registering with Microsoft and following their restrictions. --12:29:13-- http://www.microsoft.com/typography/downloads/andale32.exe => `www.microsoft.com/typography/downloads/andale32.exe' Resolving www.microsoft.com... done. Connecting to www.microsoft.com[207.46.230.220]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 12:29:16 ERROR 404: (no description). dpkg: error processing msttcorefonts (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: msttcorefonts E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) So what should I do? I realize now that I'm entirely ignorant about how fonts work in linux. Is there a good resource on this? Thanks for your help,, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
