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Installing Vista Fonts in Ubuntu September 16, 2007

Posted by Carthik in guides, looks and feel, microsoft, packages, ubuntu.
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Microsoft’s new ClearType fonts for Vista are great. The fonts include Constantia, Corbel, Calibri, Cambria, Candara and Consolas.
Microsoft Vista Fonts

Getting them installed in Ubuntu is a breeze, thanks to a script I found.
To install the Vista ClearType fonts in Ubuntu, you need to install cabextract first. Cabextract is a utility found in the universe repository, so before you run the following command, make sure you have universe enabled in your repository list. Once this is done, install cabextract using:
$sudo apt-get install cabextract

Then, once that is done, use this script to install the Vista fonts. Create a file called “vista-fonts-installer.sh” in your home (~) directory.
Then open up a text editor and copy and paste the script into that file.
Do a chmod a+x ~/vista-fonts-installer.sh to make the file/script executable.
Then run the script using:
$ ~/vista-fonts-installer.sh

The script downloads the Powerpoint Viewer installer from microsoft.com, and then extracts the Vista cleartype fonts using cabextract. These fonts are then installed in the ~/.fonts directory.

Please remember that the ClearType Vista fonts are not free as in they are not GPL-ed or made available under a re-distributable license. Since you are downloading the fonts from the MS website, and since you might already have a Windows XP/Vista license, this is not a crime, but consider yourself warned against the perils of supporting closed systems :)

Update::

  1. Looks like the use of these fonts are restricted to only Microsoft Windows/Vista operating systems according to the terms of the license. I am sorry, but you’ll be installing them at your own risk.
  2. Also, please make sure you use the bash shell, or change the first line of the code to #!/bin/bash
  3. In retrospect, this was a bad post – I think we’re better off not using stuff folks don’t want us to use – let’s use the better, freer, easier to install fonts.

Comments»

1. DanaKil - September 16, 2007

I have an error :
44: curl: not found

any idea ? :-/

2. slash - September 16, 2007

Well, install curl first ;-)

$sudo apt-get install curl

3. slash - September 16, 2007

I got a different error:

trap: 47: SIGINT: bad trap

4. scipio - September 16, 2007

i get the same error as #3

5. northernsoul - September 16, 2007

i get the error described in #3 as well.

6. Luiz - September 16, 2007

I get the same error here.

7. Adriaan - September 16, 2007

Same error here too

8. 'Techie' Jim - September 16, 2007

I got the same error as #3. I did a little testing with the script and noticed that EXIT, SIGINT, etc. were not returning anything other than strings ‘EXIT’, ‘SIGINT’, etc. rather than their associated numbers. To fix it, I replaced line 47 of the script with:

trap ‘rm -rf “$TMPDIR”‘ 0 1 2 3 9

I am pretty sure that was the author’s intension.

9. Luiz - September 16, 2007

Just removing line 47 works.

No problems.

10. Alex Jones - September 16, 2007

I’ve a feeling SIGINT etc. is Bash-specific, not POSIX sh.

Just change the shebang to #!/bin/bash and it runs fine.

11. kadath - September 16, 2007

Or I could zip the fonts and upload them so that everyone can download it and unzip the archive to ~/.fonts, if anyone’s interested…

12. yosch - September 16, 2007

The EULA on these fonts is much more restrictive than the ms core fonts and such use is a violation:

“Font Components
You may use the fonts that accompany the PowerPoint Viewer only to display and print content from a device running a Microsoft Windows operating system. Additionally, you may do the following:

* Embed fonts in content as permitted by the embedding restrictions in the fonts
* When printing content, temporarily download the fonts to a printer or other output device

You may not copy, install or use the fonts on other devices.”

Better use existing open fonts which grant you the 4 freedoms:
http://unifont.org/fontguide/
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/fonts/
http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/review/

13. Jill Joran - September 16, 2007

That would be a great idea :)

14. pricechild - September 16, 2007

Isn’t this against the EULA of the powerpoint software viewer? You can’t just take what you want and use it as you like?

And the “since you might already have a Windows XP/Vista license, this is not a crime” line….. I mean come on?

15. pricechild - September 16, 2007

Oh and I’m told hotlinking to MS downloads rather than going through the web interface isn’t good either?

kadath, when did you have distribution rights on these?

16. yosch - September 16, 2007

@pricechild

no. Even use is restricted:

read it for yourself:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=048DC840-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en

It’s locked down to Windows use.

We’re much better off using open fonts which can be freely used, copied modified, redistributed, derived from and embedded no matter what OS. There are some nice quality fonts with all the momentum around open fonts. With fontconfig substitution the choice is pretty clear I would say.

17. pricechild - September 16, 2007

I never see the difference between fonts myself… but I strongly think that this post shouldn’t be on ubuntu’s planet… it looks very bad on ubuntu imo, but I think I should leave it there and will stop posting.

18. C Nelson - September 16, 2007

For the record, they do look marginally better than their predecessors, however, the DejaVu family looks a lot better than the lot of them.

For the record:

Constantina ~= Times New Roman ~= DejaVu Serif
Corbel ~= Trebuchet MS
Calibri ~= Arial ~= DejaVu Sans Serif
Cambria ~= Lucida Bold ~= DejaVu Serif (Bold)
Candara ~= Trebuchet MS
Consolas ~= Lucida Console ~= DejaVu

Unfortunately, I dont know of any Open Source Humanist style font.

19. Azrael Nightwalker - September 16, 2007

“You may use the fonts that accompany the PowerPoint Viewer only to display and print content from a device running a Microsoft Windows operating system. (…) You may not copy, install or use the fonts on other devices.”

20. Carthik - September 16, 2007

I’m sorry for the trouble folks – maybe non-free fonts aren’t worth the trouble. I’ll stop short of deleting this post since it is already out there.

21. Carthik - September 16, 2007

As an added explanation, it was this comment on an earlier post that made me go looking for a solution.

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24. Stoffe - September 17, 2007

Not too happy about finding this kind of post on planet Ubuntu.

I’ve been through a number of years using Linux where w32codecs and msttcorefonts and more was a necessary step of every install (for a normal home desktop with recreational use). Lately, this need has disappeared thanks to the awesome work of the free software community. I don’t want to see anyone advocate taking a step back in this regard, not even for “the heck of it”.

Of course I see no ill will in the post. :) Just think it may send the wrong message.

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26. jaapz - September 18, 2007

Are these fonts just truetype fonts?

27. Stephen - September 27, 2007

I think its appropriate to delete the post (or at least the downloadable script) as I’m having trouble seeing how it could be legitimately used given the context.

Copyrights are important to open source and its only fair that we equally respect the copyrights of others. Otherwise the whiff of hypocrisy will be in the air.

oh, and it good for your karma.

28. Thomas - September 29, 2007

The reason that “trap” is a problem for #3 and others is that trap is built into the Bourne Again SHell (i.e. bash) and feisty and later versions of Ubuntu (i.e. those released on or after 2006.10) do not use bash as their built-in shell.

If the first line of the script was:
#!/bin/bash
instead of
#!/bin/sh
these problems would be avoided.

I’d also change the lines in 40-something to this:

if ! [ -e "$ARCHIVE" ] ; then
if exists curl ; then curl -O “$URL”
elif exists wget ; then wget “$URL”
elif exists fetch ; then fetch “$URL”
elif true; then echo ‘You need one of the following programs: curl, wget
or fetch or I cannot continue.’
fi
fi

29. Robvdl - October 3, 2007

The fonts appear to be installing into the current users profile folder /home/user/.fonts even though I specifically ran the script as sudo. This is not very good on a multi user system where you want all users to see the fonts, maybe when the script is run as root, the fonts should be instaledl to /usr/share/fonts instead.

I typed the following to correct mine:

sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/Vista
sudo mv ~/.fonts/* /usr/share/fonts/Vista
sudo fc-cache -vf

log out/in

30. linux newbie - October 6, 2007

The point is, people of Canonical should also consider making new fonts that look as good as what Microsoft’s has.
As a geek, i think this post is worthy, so don’t delete it.

31. tag - October 13, 2007

No problems.

32. cheeky - October 22, 2007

easy/quick howto, I had some problems using the script. curl utility problem, and it was terminated by signal. I didn’t fix it, just extracted some necessary commands from it.

apt-get install cabextract
wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/5/a/f5a3df76-d856-4a61-a6bd-722f52a5be26/PowerPointViewer.exe
cabextract -L -F ppviewer.cab -d . PowerPointViewer.exe
cabextract -L -F ‘*.TTF’ -d ~/.fonts ppviewer.cab
cd ~/.fonts && chmod 600 *.ttf

It will be fine if someone doesn’t need automation. :)

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34. eslamali - November 3, 2007

The fonts appear to be installing into the current users profile folder /home/user/.fonts even though I specifically ran the script as sudo. This is not very good on a multi user system where you want all users to see the fonts, maybe when the script is run as root, the fonts should be instaledl to /usr/share/fonts instead.

I typed the following to correct mine:

sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/Vista
sudo mv ~/.fonts/* /usr/share/fonts/Vista
sudo fc-cache -vf

log out/in

35. Mamat - November 10, 2007

I have make it on my ubuntu, but didnt know why, i have some trouble. My Ubuntu is slow on first boot. Has anyone know why ?

36. spiritinaphoto - November 11, 2007

A lot of people seem to think this post is sacrilege, but I appreciate it.

It’s all well and good for the purists to say “use free fonts”, but the problem is that some of us have to cope with other people who use proprietary stuff on a regular basis, and need to make certain the fonts render correctly. One of my professors loves to use Calibri in his PowerPoint presentations (ah, if only he could upload them to WebCT as PDF files!), so the text is completely out of alignment if I don’t have Calibri installed (it’s very nice to not have to go through and change all the fonts on 20+ slides before printing!).

37. Bobby Lee Janz - November 15, 2007

I think the new fonts look beautiful on Ubuntu.

38. macdo - November 18, 2007

Where are you, Carthik? Don’t stop posting !

39. best-health-tips - November 22, 2007

I have make it on my ubuntu, but didnt know why, i have some trouble.

40. Jonesy - November 22, 2007

This is a great blog. Thanks for the info.

41. orvblog - November 23, 2007

Same error here too

42. Tony - November 26, 2007

Works ok for me.

43. ping - November 26, 2007

can you do wingdings? :)

44. Scott - November 27, 2007

I found an easier way.

I just copy them over from my Windows partition. ;)

45. ping - December 2, 2007

works for me alas :)

46. Megan - January 6, 2008

How do you install or download just regular free fonts off the internet? I’m sort of a clueless computer user, I’ve been dabbling in HTML, but am to lazy and confusted to figure out how to do this myself.

47. kalopsky - January 15, 2008

Thanks For the tips

48. trusted_blogs - January 18, 2008

I have been to your webpage alot of times and really find it interesting.

Just found this really cool article about the Nintendo Wii and making it 3D, just amazing:
Nintendo Wii Remote Video

49. jack - January 25, 2008

Why not just get Vista instead of imitating it?

50. avidlinuxfan - January 31, 2008

Why buy Vista, MS is evil. There is are some interesting insights into what goes on inside Microsoft by a Microsoft blogger north central idaho or something. Microsoft management is said to have a rule “don’t leave loose money on the table” and they may be faking their commitment to protecting the environment. Allegedly they might even be taking major money from environmental groups for their new green msn site while not even agreeing with the message.

51. live7n - February 10, 2008

a great tips for Vista user to use ClearType Vista fonts

52. you don't know me - February 12, 2008
53. fontster - February 14, 2008

For those that do want to obtain a proper license for the Vista fonts, Microsoft has licensed a company called Ascender Corp to distribute the fonts to Mac OS and Linux users. The fonts aren’t cheap, but then the prices are similar to OpenType fonts from Adobe ($35.00 per font). More info here: http://www.ascendercorp.com/ctfonts.html

54. hieronymouse - February 28, 2008

I have a dual boot laptop, with a legal copy of MS Office 2007 running under XP on the other (NTFS) partition. I made a link to the windows font directory and therefore obtain the fonts from there. With sub-pixeling enabled all the C series fonts look fine in OpenOffice but are antialiased in Firefox.

55. hieronymouse - February 28, 2008

Sorry (comment no. 63). I mean not antialiased, i.e. ugly.
System is Ubuntu Gutsy.

56. Chris Chester - March 4, 2008

When I run the script I get the following error:
There is no .fonts directory in your home.
Is fontconfig set up for privately installed fonts?
How do I fix this?
Thanks.

57. Howto: Install Windows Vista Fonts in Ubuntu - March 6, 2008

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58. haloroundmyhead - March 7, 2008

Open your home folder in Nautilus, create a new folder, and then title it “.fonts” (quotes removed, obviously). Couldn’t be easier.

59. www.smasra.com - March 15, 2008

thank you my friend but i will try first install window vista first because now i use SP2

thank

60. simpleboy - March 27, 2008

How about installing Office 2007 in Ubuntu in a very convenient way. Here is a tutorial http://goodbutbad.blogspot.com/2008/03/install-m-office-2007-in-ubuntu.html

61. Raman - April 3, 2008

it’s not working for me :-(

62. thanveer - April 9, 2008

Hi. This information was very useful to me coz I was struggling to get vista font for ubuntu. If you have time please visit thanveer.page.tl

63. slash - April 15, 2008

Dan told me about this blog of ubunt
I thought you guys never had any blog
but w/e nice stuff
is there a way to find your forums

64. suruwat - April 21, 2008

This is nice. :-)
I would be great to know if the fonts could be downloaded through the site.
Some fonts can be downloaded form Suruwat.Com http://www.suruwat.com/free_download/

65. eliaspizarro - April 24, 2008

$ sudo apt-get install curl

66. Luis - April 26, 2008

The script didn’t work but executing some commands on the terminal and exclude where erros apear works. thanks!

That’s a nice look with this fonts on my desktop. and Documents look beter

67. n2wz - May 13, 2008

Liberation fonts is everything one might need. Look in repos.

68. paolo - May 29, 2008

Hi!
Willing to spread news of this?
http://www.gnuband.org/2008/05/29/help_translate_the_video_mandela_describes_the_concept_of_ubuntu/

“Please help in translating the video in your language (via dotsub) and spread the concept of Ubuntu! It is easy and fun!”

thanks! ;-)

69. Faizi - June 18, 2008

IMHO, vista fonts doesn’t look appropriate on CRT monitor, but appear sharp on LCD

70. QueenZ - July 4, 2008

wow.. pretty useful thing actually, i always wanted to install some fonts on my ubuntu like these vista ones but didn’t really know how.. :D
I’ve used some of those in my site http://www.QueenZSoftware.com/Forums and all made in ubuntu! :) YAY!!

71. omitted - July 29, 2008

I read the title, comments, and thought to myself…Why would I want to do this? From commodore to slackware, Free+openBSD and Ubuntu… I support this “Swiss Cheese” on a daily basis, I sure don’t want anything remotely/locally to do with that company(including the forbidden fruit too… 3G anyone?).

72. finqi - September 1, 2008

To any non-Vista user out there, including victims of Calibri-ous professors: You don’t really need these fonts… and you don’t really want these fonts either.

Why ? If the professor uses Calibri, understand first, that it is because it is some sort of default font on his Vista Office, and Vista is more to blame than the good old professor.

Yes, there is a solution: 1. Don’t ever use PPT viewer or MS Office Viewer on Ubuntu unless it is the last resort. Just open the PPT or DOC in Open Office, and presto! OpenOffice will find a good substitue font for rendering purposes without touching the document. Not exactly the same, but good enough, considering the legal angle… which is my next point.

Yes, for legal reasons, I recommend staying away from these Vista fonts except when you are on Vista. Reasons:

1. The use of these fonts outside Vista is illegal. Not just on Linux, use on Windows XP too is illegal. It doesn’t matter if you own a copy of Vista. Illegal is illegal. Read the Ascender Corp news linked on this page previously.

2. The danger of passing on the disease: you, or somebody using your Ubuntu system, will soon be producing documents containing these illegal fonts and further pulling along more unsuspecting masses down the slippery slope.

So… PLEASE STOP and consider. It is in your best interest NOT TO USE the Vista fonts when you are NOT on Vista (Windows XP folks too, please take heed!)

N - March 2, 2010

Actually, I do want to use these fonts. I’m a graphics designer. My highest paying client will ONLY allow calibri, and I don’t use Windows. Would rather keep his business!

73. Tyrone - September 5, 2008

If OpenOffice actually found a good substiture font, I’d agree with the last poster. But OOo doesn’t, not even close. It completely destroys presentations without this font. Even with it, it kinda mangles it… but at least texts are in pretty good shape.

So to not have to use this, we’ll have to fix OOo’s importer first. If there is any suitable replacement font at all?

This is a totally unavoidable problem today, especially since the Calibri font is actually really good. Hard then to argue it should not be used, to people who doesn’t care about anything else.

74. Michael - September 16, 2008

To people saying it’s a step back to install non-free fonts, i think we have the right to choose…if you don’t want this fonts simple don’t install them..

75. industryfinest - October 8, 2008

Great Info.

76. airtonix - October 9, 2008

“”I’m sort of a clueless computer user, I’ve been dabbling in HTML, but am to lazy and confusted to figure out how to do this myself. “”

Then i suggest you take up gardening. computing is not for you.

77. film izle - October 10, 2008

thanks very good!

78. Kostikes - October 12, 2008

Отличный у вас блог ! Скажите плз где скин такой классный скачали ?

79. lexdrive - October 13, 2008

Отлично написано. Спасибо.

80. Parantar - October 13, 2008

got error too

81. linuxcrypt - October 13, 2008

This is awesome, I love the fonts..

82. Illichglop - October 14, 2008

Я тоже вордпресс себе на блог поставил ) Самы гибкий двиг имхо..

83. said - October 18, 2008

Thank you very much.

84. Jack Clarke - October 19, 2008

Nice, getting the same errors but I think with a little work I’ll get these installed.

85. m0ch4fudg3 - October 22, 2008

I do have encountered this kind of errors too.. and since i ask what is the point of having vista on ubuntu? I already love Ubuntu from the starts now it start to shake me more because of it’s great features.. :D

86. Subbotin - October 29, 2008

хороший рассказ, все разложено по полкам

87. francis mp3 - November 4, 2008

My name is Cliff ROBBINS,

Keftab

88. Hasib Ahmed - November 13, 2008

Nice blog. Found very good information here. Your posts look similer to this blog http://epshi.com and i found some post you copied from this blog.

89. Abe - November 13, 2008

Excellent Information!

90. Ibod Catooga - November 19, 2008

Vista fucking SUUUUUCKKK!KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

AYIIIIYYAYYAYYAYAYYAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

91. TechNald - November 22, 2008

how can i install it?

92. Canli Tv izle - November 23, 2008

vista is big problem for me .

93. Moses - November 24, 2008

I found this guide on how to install Google Chrome on Ubuntu, I don’t know who would want to do such a thing, but at least now he has a guide on how to do it….

http://www.fixya.com/support/r1238728-install_google_chrome_ubuntu

Good luck, I’m sticking to Firefox :-)

I know this is not the best post for this comment, but I didn’t know where to add this post to so here goes.

94. YFC Negros - November 25, 2008

no, vista is very best!

95. Yuri - November 27, 2008

very-very thanks!

96. Carlos - December 17, 2008

Stopped posting, altogether, now?

97. dslme - December 21, 2008

Works great, no hassles, thanks!

98. IGnatius T Foobar - January 6, 2009

The free fonts are nice but they aren’t quite as fine as the Microsoft fonts. Since Microsoft is the single biggest war criminal in the world, I don’t think we should have any reservations about “stealing” “their” fonts. Besides, intellectual property is a myth anyway. Take the fonts, use the fonts, to hell with Microsoft.

99. Yesim - January 6, 2009

Vista is good, but alta-vista :)

100. اس ام اس پیامک جوک جدید جک جدید - January 7, 2009

thank you very much

101. New Blogger - January 9, 2009

Ubuntu is the best. Vista needs more resources and need more money… :D

102. محمدرضا - January 22, 2009
103. محمدرضا - January 22, 2009

Hello :D

104. Alexander Dombroff - January 31, 2009

Wow this is very illegal, and you could get in trouble for this. Why go through the trouble when you could just use openoffice to automatically replace this font with another. If you were creating a document, you would just causing other people who dont use vista problems, since they would also have to install the fonts.

105. B - February 2, 2009

For those who can, try this:

Create a xlsx spreasheet in Office 2007, and use the Calibri font.
Then open that file in OpenOffice with the appropriate plugin, under Linux.. (I just notice this, but it probably also happens in word..)

What font are you using now under Linux? And I haven’t installed the vista fonts!

106. derl - February 3, 2009

i tried ubuntu on my second computer but the installation froze

107. micman - February 7, 2009

i using ubuntu8.10 .
absolutely no problem in installation ..very nice and simple !
Thanks :)

108. Sudipto Sarkar - February 21, 2009

Good work there…
Here’s my post about Ubuntu and its various distros:
http://opensourcethefuture.blog.co.in/2008/12/12/ubuntu/

109. japanese words - March 4, 2009

I like the font, but I still wish it was easier to install. Hopefully this type of stuff gets easier and easier as the distros keep coming out.

110. watzabatza - March 17, 2009

these fonts are cool than older version of microsoft..

111. Hampang - March 23, 2009

i like vista fonts a lot. do you have vista fonts for free download?

112. Cory Cong - April 8, 2009

i like those fonts. they’re cool!

113. Subhasis - April 19, 2009

This is nice Man, Now i can add my vista font to my ubuntu.

114. ubu-fan - April 27, 2009

Thank you very much, worked like a charm on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04.
This script don’t work straight on a multi user system, i had to create a .fonts directory in /home for the script to work then move the fonts to /usr/share/fonts.

Great Tutorial :)

115. Frederickrabbit - May 6, 2009

The script worked, I also had to create a .fonts directory in /home but now how did you move the fonts to /usr/share/fonts. Thanks for the post and any help.

116. Vista lettertypes in Ubuntu - June 15, 2009
117. Jitto - July 7, 2009

isnt there any GPL ed version of such fonts available?

118. sevişme - July 9, 2009

thank youu

119. Serrano - July 10, 2009

how about windows 7 fonts? how can we do that?

120. Nero 9 Serial - July 11, 2009

Vista fonts are just the same with XP fonts. I don’t know about the Windows 7 fonts. I think Windows 7 has more fonts

121. mimor - August 9, 2009

I have to agree that it’s quite important to note that the use of these fonts is in fact against the end user agreement.
More important, is to remark that there are cleaner free fonts.
I’d like to thank the people whom pointed them out.

122. konteyner - August 14, 2009

all font is beautiful but ubuntu’s worked fine. wonderful..

123. Cezille - August 15, 2009

ubuntu’s fonts are so cool! I’m so contented with ubuntu!

124. UFC 102 Live Stream - August 24, 2009

are microsoft fonts’ working in ubuntu too?

125. Jose - August 25, 2009

I think Ubuntu is an excellent operating system, so better take the resources of my computer

126. Berny - August 25, 2009

I think windows is an operating system with many privatizations so only use ubuntu is only good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

127. Andi - August 28, 2009

Thanks, worked like a charm :)

128. beefbox - September 14, 2009

I understand everyone’s protest here, I really do. But we have to face reality. Sometimes we do business with people in the windows world. Sometimes those people have document standards you have to adhere to. And sometimes the only way to do this, while using the software of your preference, is to bend the rules a little. Also, not everyone lives under the umbrella of US copyright laws so it’s not illegal everywhere.

THIS IS USEFUL TO PEOPLE.

That said:
Carthik, please fix the script & instructions:
1) there are too many tuts that suggest chmod a+x when u+x will do the trick. This is one of them.
2) add the shebang line to the script. it saves time if it’s needed and does no harm if it’s not.
3) the script should create ~/.fonts if it doesn’t exist instead of dying.
4) mention that curl is required. it’s not installed by default on ubuntu.

129. Dorô - September 15, 2009

Here ok. Very well.

Thanks!

130. Cemil - September 27, 2009

Ubuntu has (almost) everything you could ever need. But I guess at the end of the day everybody wants choices. So its good to see such things that are available.

131. Recull – 3/9/2009 | SomGNU - October 3, 2009

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132. Darrell - October 3, 2009

> Since Microsoft is the single biggest war criminal in the world, I don’t think we should have any reservations about “stealing” “their” fonts. Besides, intellectual property is a myth anyway. Take the fonts, use the fonts, to hell with Microsoft.

You can always tell when you’re dealing with somebody who’s never actually created anything worth paying for. If he ever does, bet your ass he’ll be the first one to sue anybody who takes it.

“War criminal.” What a fuckwit.

133. sabb - October 17, 2009

Works like a charm. Thank you!

134. denparser - October 20, 2009

try install and restart your computer. error might happen when it is not proper shut down.

135. Adolfban - October 22, 2009
136. jayvee - October 30, 2009

OMG this actually works. I love ubuntu and forever i will be. :) Ubuntu will be the next big thing.. watch out for it..

137. haber - November 11, 2009

good projected. nice documents.

138. Divx İzle - November 17, 2009

en güzel film sitresidir.

139. excalibur08 - November 21, 2009

thanks,good job

140. harddiskdriverepair - November 28, 2009

Your article is very good! Helpful to me, I have learned a lot of things, very grateful!
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141. bestexternalhdd - November 28, 2009

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142. urethritis - November 28, 2009

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143. taotao - November 28, 2009

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144. sikiş - December 1, 2009

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145. okmat - December 7, 2009

thanks Carthik, I’ve seen many web sites with the calibri font, this will allow ubuntu users to properly view web pages as the designer intended

146. okmat - December 7, 2009

thanks Carthik, I’ve seen many web sites with the calibri font lately, this will allow ubuntu users to view those web pages as the designer intended.

147. Ubuntu: More Fonts | florian.demmer.org - January 17, 2010

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148. den parser - January 17, 2010

wll done. no problem on mine. Thanks.

149. Jeff - February 11, 2010

Works perfectly… enjoying coding with Consolas now :)

Thanks!

150. seyretvideo - February 16, 2010

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151. swing trading strategies - February 22, 2010

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154. hd dizi izle - March 15, 2010

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155. hd dizi izle - March 18, 2010

I got a different error: Hd Dizi izle

156. güvenlik kamerası - April 15, 2010

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157. seo - April 15, 2010

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159. Alquiler de barcos en Ibiza - April 30, 2010

You may use the fonts that accompany the PowerPoint Viewer only to display and print content from a device running a Microsoft Windows operating system. Additionally, you may do the following:

* Embed fonts in content as permitted by the embedding restrictions in the fonts

160. Alquiler de barcos en Ibiza - May 2, 2010

You may use the fonts that accompany the PowerPoint Viewer only to display and print content from a device running a Microsoft Windows operating system. (…)

161. Alquiler de barcos en Ibiza - May 3, 2010

Or I could zip the fonts and upload them so that everyone can download it and unzip the archive to ~/.fonts, if anyone’s interested.

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163. Malika - May 17, 2010
164. Rauf - May 17, 2010

Hmm.. I need some help with the fonts. I am a newbie and I dont know how to do things :(
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165. Mikey - May 17, 2010

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170. cimonk - May 20, 2010

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173. travesti - June 29, 2010

thank you admins

174. travesti - June 29, 2010

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175. ramzport - June 29, 2010

There were problems with anti-aliasing?

176. sinema izle - July 3, 2010

Thank you very much admin.

177. Ubuntu User - July 14, 2010

Hopefully these won’t be needed any more as there’s a brand new font coming in Ubuntu 10.10..

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190. Alquiler de barcos en Ibiza - August 20, 2010

The fonts appear to be installing into the current users profile folder /home/user/.fonts even though I specifically ran the script as sudo. This is not very good on a multi user system where you want all users to see the fonts, maybe when the script is run as root, the fonts should be instaledl to /usr/share/fonts instead.

191. Pramono - August 24, 2010

Well done, Even Ubuntu guy can make the same thing vista has. Good job open source guy..

Regards,
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192. güvenlik kamera - September 13, 2010

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193. Organizasyon - September 13, 2010

I’ve overcome a problem in your way again. Thank you very much friends.

194. hırdavat - September 13, 2010

was very useful. I was a little difficult but I managed. Thank you for informing

195. Alquiler de barcos en Ibiza - September 22, 2010

I got a different error:

196. sikiş izle - September 26, 2010

The EULA on these fonts is much more restrictive than the ms core fonts and such use is a violation:

197. porno - September 27, 2010

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198. porno sikiş - September 27, 2010

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199. sex sikiş - September 28, 2010

The fonts appear to be installing into the current users profile folder /home/user/.fonts even though I specifically ran the script as sudo. This is not very good on a multi user system where you want all users to see the fonts, maybe when the script is run as root, the fonts should be instaledl to /usr/share/fonts instead.

200. güvenlik kamerası - September 30, 2010

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201. seks izle - October 3, 2010

working nice. thanks a lot ….

202. Rajesh - October 3, 2010

I like it.Great work.

203. Rajesh - October 3, 2010

I like it.Great Work dude.

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205. sağlık haberleri - October 22, 2010

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206. porno - November 1, 2010

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207. ryan - November 10, 2010

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208. Preda Ilie - December 8, 2010

Thanks for your advces.. I always wanted to install these tyoes of fonts on my ubuntu.. thank u again and i expect your next posts

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215. sohbet - January 4, 2011

Thanks for your advces.. I always wanted to install these tyoes of fonts on my ubuntu.. thank u again and i expect your next posts

216. ubuntuforseniors - February 6, 2011

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217. Jacob - February 6, 2011

Thank you for this article, I’ve been looking for this for a long time.

218. bölüm fragmanı - March 3, 2011

THANSK YOU

219. Ubuntu for live - April 11, 2011

We can also copy the fonts from windows
Usually in Folder (C)-Windows-Font
Then we install in ubuntu

220. iponk - April 19, 2011

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221. hosting - April 26, 2011

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222. web tasarımı - April 26, 2011

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224. Lotto Results - April 29, 2011

i have these fonts. they are good for formal communications like letters

225. Luca - May 3, 2011

Good advice, even if against the rules. However, this article is from September 1997 and is the *latest* on this forum. I hope the author was not sued to hell due to this? :-)

226. ovi - June 27, 2011

i don`t understend unbutu system…it`s hard…

227. John Cartwright - July 9, 2011

I am using the Segoe UI font in Gnome and it is a very good looking font indeed, I have all of the MS fonts from Windows installed to have a better web browsing experience and for creating graphics it is a good idea to have many fonts available.

But you can just copy all of the fonts from Windows into ~/.fonts folder and then you are good to go.

228. arkadaş - July 23, 2011

i don`t understend unbutu system…it`s hard…

229. ukrayna vizesi - July 30, 2011

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230. arkadaş - August 5, 2011

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231. antalya böcek ilaçlama - August 7, 2011

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232. Martin Scharm - August 9, 2011

There are better fonts that are also open! So don’t run into legal trouble just because you use these MS ones ;-)

233. Thesphinx - September 19, 2011

guyzzz go to this site: http://www.oooninja.com/2008/01/calibri-linux-vista-fonts-download.html

All of the fonts easy peazy. just remember to do everything in the home folder. then you can just copy and paste all the terminal commands!

234. Grandbazaar - September 21, 2011

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235. Surf Lessons - September 23, 2011

OMG ! I just found a error inside your site! Check if your plugins is configured correctly!

236. Virgie Puckett - September 25, 2011

Sometimes when I need these fonts, I just get it from font download website and install it manually.

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241. güvenlik sistemleri - October 25, 2011

Sometimes when I need these fonts, I just get it from font download website and install it manually.

242. Перетяжка салона - October 28, 2011

That would be a great idea

243. Nael - November 5, 2011

Sometimes when I need these fonts, I just get it from font download website and install it manually.

244. Nael - November 6, 2011

apt-get install cabextract

245. NeoPulsaGram - November 15, 2011

NIce info thanks

246. ricky - November 17, 2011

thats a great tips for ubuntu fans in the world..thanks

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251. naveenparth - January 14, 2012

Thx. Good Stuff… Installed successfully on Ubuntu 10.11

252. naveenparth - January 14, 2012

Thx. Good Stuff… Installed successfully on Ubuntu 11.10

253. kjderricks - April 21, 2012

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254. Sergio - May 16, 2012
255. andrei - June 27, 2012

To install any font just put the .ttf file into ~/.fonts folder and execute fc-cache.

256. Nabil Stendardo - August 2, 2012

Concerning the license issues, if you are dual-booting Windows/Linux like me, it would be (arguably) in accordance with the license to install them under Linux (if that particular device runs Windows). However such stuff (“interpreting what is a ‘device running Microsoft Windows’”) is up to courts (not to us, nor to Microsoft).

257. cloudx - November 28, 2012

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261. Abdelwahab Bounasser - December 30, 2012

There is no .fonts directory in your home.
Is fontconfig set up for privately installed fonts?

andrei - December 31, 2012

Execute in terminal: mkdir ~/.fonts

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