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Core Windows Font
- this will install MS Windows core fonts i.e. Arial etc.
- Optional
sudo add-apt-repository multiverse
sudo apt update
- Optional if installing
# install FontForge will help doing the font conversion
# install MS Cabinet file unpacker. required if u didn't install corefonts first
sudo apt-get install fontforge
sudo apt-get install cabextract
- sudo apt-get install fontforge
- Install the Microsoft Cabinet file unpacker. This is required for the next script to successfully install the fonts.
- sudo apt-get install cabextract
- Install the font from repository
sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
- Update the font cache
sudo fc-cache -f -v
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Vista Fonts
- The following steps is in addition to the above, to install Vista related fonts i.e. Calibri
wget https://gist.github.com/maxwelleite/10774746/raw/ttf-vista-fonts-installer.sh -q -O - | sudo bash
References
- https://itsfoss.com/install-microsoft-fonts-ubuntu/
- https://itectec.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-how-to-get-calibri-font-to-display-nicely-duplicate/
- to make Windows font looks like by disabling antialiasing