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[Linux/Unix] Webpage font fix

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Posted by: BooRadley

If you've noticed that a lot of websites don't play well with Linux, it's because the default fonts are small and awful, and a lot of websites use Microsoft only fonts. You can install those fonts on your *nix system with only a little effort, though.

Gohere and follow the instructions.

You will need rpm-build and wget installed, plus something to provide ttmkfdir, but you probably already do if you're using a popular Linux distribution.

The rest of the directions are easy to follow, and will download and install, without violating copyright law, Microsofts core font collection, so you get the MSFT fonts loaded that the websites speficy, rather than a default.

If you can't find the rpm created after running rpmbuild, look in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/

If not, the directory it's put in should be included in the output of rpmbuild, near the end.



 
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