As an additional note, as part of the Windows system libraries, Windows itself now takes great pains to ensure that you don't drop in a replacement DLL for it - there are cached versions which Windows will use (and replace your modified one with) if it detects tampering. It's been improved steadily throughout Windows' lifecycle, but the only way to "replace" it is to replace Windows itself. GDI is a core part of the Windows system. ttf files to ~/.fonts/ (or /usr/local/share/fonts for system wide availability) before running fc-cache should be sufficient. But if you have it from other sources, copying the. The core fonts package doesn't include Tahoma though. Then configure Tahoma 8 as the default font in your desktop environment (KDE's control centre for me equally easy in the Gnome equivalent)Īnother way is to simply install msttcorefonts package from Universe and run fc-cache, as instructed in this post on Ubuntu Blog. (Nowadays there's no need to create files like fonts.scale, fonts.dir or fonts.alias using ttmkfdir or other utilities!) Run sudo fc-cache -fv to rebuild font information cache files.
usr/local/winfonts.Įdit /etc/fonts/nfig and add your winfont dir: the Microsoft Core Fonts package legally available on the web) in some directory, e.g.
Put your TrueType fonts (.ttf files from Windows installation or e.g.(Gone are the days of needing to recompile Freetype with a certain option (I forget which) to get them right.) Steps I took when last installing Ubuntu afresh
These days I find it very easy to get nice fonts in Ubuntu. (Also, I prefer no antialiasing at all for small font sizes, when using good TrueType fonts. Well, at least the Windows XP default, Tahoma. I also like Windows fonts much better than the defaults on any Linux distributions.
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