Alan thank you very much and happy holidays Mark On Thursday, December 22, 2011, Alan Coopersmith < [email protected]> wrote: > On 12/22/11 10:08, Mark Creamer wrote: >> >> Makes sense about the licensing. Thank you for that explanation. I see that the >> fonts available at the link you supplied are packaged for Windows. How do I >> place them on the OI system? Thanks again > > There's several guides to installing on Linux - OpenIndiana/Solaris > installation should be pretty much the same thing, since the same > open source software is used (fontconfig, freetype, Xorg, etc.). > > A quick google search turned up http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ > which has the cabextract software needed to get .ttf's out of the > Microsoft .exe's. Though that site still refers to older font tools, > for instance, ttmkfdir is now built into mkfontdir instead of being > a separate utility, and few people use the xfs font server these days. > > Debian does provide a package that provides an installer for them, but > does not install them, due to the "may not be distributed for profit either > on a standalone basis or included as part of your own product" terms of the > license which would conflict with those selling things such as Debian CD's or > systems with the software preinstalled. OI would have to determine it's own > policy for handling things like this for packaging. > > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/ttf-mscorefonts-installer > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] > Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System > >
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