[KLUG Members] howto add Arial font to OpenOffice

[paul van allsburg]

Thank you both for your help, I used http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ 
and got setup in a jiffy...  now to write my paper...

paul

Greg Mason wrote:
> I used KDE's font import tools, as root, and OpenOffice recognizes them 
> (about 200 fonts off a winbloz workstation)
> 
> all of the fonts work in OpenOffice. This was done in SuSE 8.0 with KDE 
> 3.0.3 (i think, was a while ago)
> 
> now I'm on KDE 3.1.0, SuSE 8.0, still works. (if KDE had anything to do 
> with it after importing the fonts, anyways)
> 
> there are some other GUI font importing tools, (one in Mandrake's 
> control panel, that even looks at your winbloz volume, and grabs fonts 
> automatically from it)
> 
> also, just putting the fonts into the default directory for TTF fonts, 
> then rebuilding the two files in there (using some command) works too, 
> if you wanna do the command-line route.
> (i realize this isn't too helpful, but it's the most I could pry out of 
> my brain at the moment)
> 
> I found howtos very easily by googling around a little bit.
> 
> -Greg
> 
> On Saturday, February 22, 2003, at 07:00  PM, Dennis wrote:
> 
>> paul van allsburg wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'd like to add the Arial font to my OpenOffice app.  I can't seem to
>>> find it or any instructions. Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Paul Van Allsburg
>>>
>>
>> http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> I believe Arial is included. At least it looks like it here.
>>
>> http://andrew.triumf.ca/fonts/fonts.html
>> -- 
>> Dennis