This should help clear up any confusion, MS released about 65 TTF fonts for free public use, referred to as " TrueType Core Fonts for the Web" They are still legal to use when distributed in their original released packages.slavvo67 wrote:Sorry to be a bummer but doesn't MS have copyright on its fonts (except for like 8 that it released to public 10+ years back).
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web
http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/microso ... -web-fonts
Available for download here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefon ... nts/final/
In my puppy they are installed to /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF/
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A snippet from a document, credit to original poster.
Get Microsoft Fonts
cabextract
msttcore fonts
Now we are going to install the microsoft core fonts. It is suitable for all people who share office documents with Microsoft Users, or people who use the MS Core font collection as a common font base across platforms.
Get the core fonts here: http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/microso ... -web-fonts
They are packed as *.exe files and have to be extracted first by using the command line tool cabextract. Don’t be afraid, it is not too complicated. But it is a bit of time consuming work. The benefit is that you can read all documents from other people using the mainstream font families without having strange looking line- and page breaks.
Get cabextract here: http://www.smokey01.com/coolpup/cabextr ... 110523.pet
Download it, double click to install or use PPM and keep it for later use.
Then do as follows.
Usage: cabextract [options] [-d dir] <cabinet file(s)>
This will extract all files from a cabinet or executable cabinet.
For multi-part cabinets, only specify the first file in the set.
Options:
-v