I just did a fresh install of Karmic Koala, and had a very unexpected issue.
When using Outlook Web Access Light 2007 new items were not showing ion bold text.
Even though I had installed the Microsoft True Type Core Fonts (installable via synaptec as ttf-mscorefonts-installer) I was still seeing the issue.
It turns out that even though I did have the font "Tahoma" which is used by OWA light, it was not displaying Tahoma Bold correctly. this was true in other apps as well, not just Firefox. I reinstalled the corefonts, and refreshed the font cache, no dice.
I guess that MSCorefonts does not include a bolded version of tahoma, which normally gets created on the fly by the OS.
Well this was not working for me.
so I did the following:
downloaded the fonts in cab format:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/IELPKTH.CAB
put it in a NEW folder your home folder. open the terminal, and then enter:
cd (new folder you just made's name)
then
cabextract *.CAB
(this will extract all the file into that folder.)
then
sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/tahoma
then
sudo cp *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/tahoma
then rebuild your font cache
sudo fc-cache -f -v
you should be all set at this point (and please let me know if any of my commands are wrong, I'm going from memory here)
3 comments:
Yup, this works. You may want to remove the "sudo mkdir" from the cp command though. It shouldn't be there.
Oh, and thanks very much. I'm generating business letters on a system that had, until recently, no Tahoma installed. This makes the letters look so much better.
Thanks Jos, copy/paste fail on my part. fixed it.
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