Tahoma font with Windows look

[tousavelo]

Hello,

I'm always amazed to see that stock Linux font display is OK for most people. For me it's absolutely unacceptable.

See hypelinks bellow for detailed information. Basically, if you think that your linux display is not as expected, try the following:

Turn off anti-aliasing. Don't hesitate to switch it off in the KDE panel (for QT apps), the Gnome panel (for GTK apps) and in the local.conf XFT configuration file.

***Recompile FREETYPE with the TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER option ON.***

Notice that the latter might not be legal in your area.

See those resources
General:
http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/font-howto/Font.html

General + Mandrake:
http://convexhull.com/mandrake_fonts.html

General + SUSE:
http://ed.asisaid.com/freetypefix.html
Notice that the 9.1+ part did not apply to my 9.2 Suse.

To know where FREETYPE was installed in your distro:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/10...onts_in_linux/

To know more about Xft:
http://www.keithp.com/~keithp/render/Xft.tutorial
http://www.xfree86.org/current/fontconfig.3.html
It confirms that you should update local.conf and not fonts.conf. fonts.conf might be replaced when you reinstall XFT.

[NeoChaosX]

Um, I just downloaded msttcorefonts, but there's no Tahoma selectable. Am I doing something wrong?

[kassetra]

Ok, you installed the msttcorefonts, and you don't see Tahoma where? In your fonts list?

I'm not sure if Ubuntu comes standard with this feature or not, but you can try:
1. Open a nautilus window (Computer->Home)
2. Type this in the location window

fonts:///

and press enter.

You should see a list of fonts installed and available on your system. If you don't see Tahoma in that list, PM me.

[mirtux]

Um, I just downloaded msttcorefonts, but there's no Tahoma selectable. Am I doing something wrong?

Hi,
unfortunately there is no tahoma font in that package.... There is some sort of M$ protection with it. If you want it i think you have to take it from Windows...

Regards,
MC

[sayash]

um... how do you take tahoma from windows?

Sayash

[bvc]

drag and drop to your .fonts dir in your Home dir (in you don't have it, create it >mkdir -p .fonts) and restart X, or log out and in , or start the gnome-font-properties, or ....about 3 other ways of doing the same.

[mirtux]

Hi,
i used a VERY dirty way of doing that.... but it works... i just copied the two files tahoma.ttf and tahomabd.ttf in

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/

For sure there are better choices...

Regards,
MC

[finity]

The default font used in MS Applications is MS Sans Serif. Try that font instead of Tahoma.

*EDIT*: You can find this font in this attachment (hopefully) or goto:
%WINDIR%/Fonts/MICROSS.ttf

[mirtux]

Well,
in my Windows XP i have only, by default, Tahoma and Trebuchet....

Regards,
MC

[Zootropo]

The default font used in MS Applications is MS Sans Serif. Try that font instead of Tahoma.

*EDIT*: You can find this font in this attachment (hopefully) or goto:
%WINDIR%/Fonts/MICROSS.ttf

is that attachment legal? you know, being copyrighted by microsoft....