Re: No Times New Roman in font list

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 00:47 +0100, Christian Melsheimer wrote:

> So when I first change to another font by selecting one from the
> drop-down list (say Courier), and then want to change back to Times New
> Roman, _it is not possible_, as there is no Times New Roman entry at all
> in the drop-down list. Same with the font list in the Format->Font menu:
> No Times New Roman!
>
> I had hoped this problem had gone away when I updated to 2.4.5 last
> fall, but alas, it is still there. Or do I overlook something very
> fundamental?

Install the Times New Roman font.
I assume you are using Linux as that font comes with windows and I
believe either comes with Mac OS X or some MS software common on Mac OS
X.

Personally I think AbiWord on Linux should default to one of the
Bitstream Vera fonts that every distro has now, but I think they want
consistency over operating systems?

The font was distributed by MS under a license that allowed non
commercial non physical media redistribution by other people.

One place where you can get it:

wget
http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/times32.exe

You have to extract it with cabextract

If you want all the "MS core web fonts" - I have a shell script that
will get them all and install all of them.

You can get it from
wget http://mpeters.us/tplinux/coreweb_font_installer.sh.gz

uncompress it and run it (not as root) - and it will install the fonts
in your ~/.fonts directory (or create an rpm if you want)

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Received on Fri Feb 9 01:32:42 2007