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This short tutorial describes how to Install Microsoft Windows Fonts in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and its derivatives such as Linux Mint.
This is not so much asking a question as passing on what I hope may be some useful information. I recently installed Linux Mint on my laptop in dual boot with Windows 7. I need to create, or work with, Word documents (.docx) produced in Microsoft Office. I have discovered that LibreOffice is usually OK with that, and can open and save documents in either.docx or.odt format (although sometimes layout goes a little peculiar when shifting from one to the other).
But one big headache has been that LibreOffice does not include many of the fonts most commonly used in Word documents. I have just learned that many of the Word default fonts are unique to Microsoft - like Arial, Calibri, and Times New Roman, to name but three which I have been accustomed to using regularly. Although created by Microsoft, they can be used in other software.
I went looking for guidance on how to add fonts into LibreOffice, and found several sites which went into great detail about searching for font-packages on the internet or from Ubuntu repositories and then using the terminal to put them into your.fonts folder. All very complicated. Then I came across an article on the PC World website. This explains very clearly and simply how, if you have a dual-boot setup, to use Linux to go and find the Windows fonts from the Windows drive. Then you just double click and choose install. Couldn't be easier!
I hope this is useful to others who, like me, want to use different (and Microsoft) fonts. Jimallyn wrote:You could also just use ttf-mscorefonts-installer, which is in the repositories and can be installed with Synaptic or Software Manager.
Ah, if only I had known that! Might have been even quicker than searching, selecting and installing specific MS fonts from my Win7 drive partition. If I now download that whole package via Synaptic, will the fact that I have already installed some of those fonts directly confuse matters and cause the package-install to mess up? Or will the Synaptic package be clever enough to see and avoid any conflict with the limited number of MS fonts that I have already installed?
Ubuntu does come with a bunch of fonts installed by default in it. But at times you might not be satisfied with the available lots of fonts. So, what you can do is to install additional fonts in Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04, or any other Linux system such as Linux Mint. Step 1: Get fonts First and foremost, download your choice of fonts. Now you might聽be thinking from where can you get new fonts. Don’t worry, a simple Google search will provide you with several websites that have new fonts available for free. You can start with.
Is also a good place to download fonts. Step 2: Install new fonts in Ubuntu The downloaded fonts might be in a zipped file. Most of the fonts are either in (TrueType Fonts) or in (OpenType Fonts) format. Whichever it may be, just double click on the font file. It will open it in Font Viewer. In here, you can see the option to install the font in top right corner: You won’t really see anything being installed as you see when installing a software.
Couple of seconds later, you’ll see the status has been changed to Installed. No prizes for guessing that the font has been now installed. Once installed, you can see the newly installed fonts in any application that uses fonts such as GIMP, Pinta etc.
Step 2: Install several fonts at once in Linux No, it is not typo. This is still step 2 but just an alternative. The method we saw above to install fonts in Ubuntu is just fine. But there is a little issue with it.
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What happens when you have like 20 new fonts to install. Installing all these fonts, one by one, by double clicking on them is cumbersome and inconvenient. Don’t you think the same? To install several fonts at once in Ubuntu, all you need to do is to create.fonts directory, if it doesn’t exist already, in your Home directory. And extract or copy paste all those TTF or OTF files in this directory. Go to your Home directory in File manager. Press Ctrl+H to.
Right click to make a new folder and name it.fonts. That dot at the beginning is important. In Linux, if you put dot ahead of the file name, it hides the file from normal view. Alternative: Alternatively, you can install Font Manager application and manage fonts in GUI. To install Font Manager in Ubuntu, open a terminal and use the command below: sudo apt-get install font-manager Open the Font Manager from Unity Dash. You can see installed fonts and option to install new fonts, remove existing fonts etc here.
To remove Font Manager, use the command below: sudo apt-get remove font-manager I hope this quick helped you to install fonts in Ubuntu and other Linux systems. Do let me know if you have questions or suggestions.