Get Microsoft's Core Fonts for the Web and Cleartype Fonts

For Redhat, Fedora, Centos, SUSE, Mandrake, Yellowdog, and any linux distro that uses RPM

What's this?

Having trouble viewing documents produced on Windows?  The fonts don't look right, unreadable?  You need the to get the right fonts so the documents display properly.

What you'll find here

An rpm that downloads the fonts from sourceforge, installs them and activates them on your linux system.  This is the easiest way to install these fonts for rpm systems.

No rpmbuild, no build a ttmkfdir from source, and no editing rpmmacros.  Sorry!  Just a one line "rpm -i" install.

The Fonts

Go to wikipedia for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web
Microsoft's webpage on this: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/web.aspx
Microsoft's webpage on the ClearType fonts: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypeFonts.mspx

How to INSTALL

Make sure the prereqs are there.  Except for cabextract, these prereqs are likely already installed on your system.

Install the fonts

The Source

The cab files

• The originals, circa 1999 http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/the fonts/final/
  
• The European Union update, circa 2006 http://sourceforge.net/projects/mscorefonts2/files/cabs/
• The ClearType Fonts, circa 2007 http://sourceforge.net/projects/mscorefonts2/files/cabs/

Travelog

Kudos to Hnr Kordewiner (hnr at kordewiner com) for tracking down a lot of these files.
I added the authors (alias) name cause the revision numbering was not consistent.

* Wed May 29 2013 Rob Janes %lt;janes.rob gmail com> 2.6-1

• added ClearType fonts, thanks to Robbie Litchfield.
  see http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypeFonts.mspx for more info.
• added %verify section to qualify rpm -V, thanks to discussion on rpmfusion
• bumped version number past Daniel Resare's. Tried to coordinate with him, but he's working on mac stuff now and not interested - "I've given up on Linux on the desktop."
• available at https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/specs/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.spec

* Sun Sep 9 2012 Daniel Resare <noa resare com> 2.5-1

• Daniel Resare: "Ouch, that was a few years. Due to the kind contributions of Deven T. Corzine we now have an updated (and working!) package again."
• Almost the same feature set as Dennis Johnson's 2.0-6
• updates the hardcoded sourceforge mirror list - does not use sourceforge's mirror redirect (meaning it will get out of date again).
• replaces deprecated BuildPrereq with BuildRequires
• available at http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.5-1.spec

* Sun Oct 7 2012  Rob Janes <janes.rob gmail com> 2.2-1

• moved install script to shell script, run in post step
• switched to sha256 from md5
• available at https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/specs/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.2-1.spec

* Mon Sep 15 2012  Rob Janes <janes.rob gmail com> 2.1-2

• updated comments, messages, description and such.
• don't download older cabs for fonts in the EUupdate.EXE file, unless the download for the EUupdate failed.
• available at https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/specs/msttcore-fonts-2.1-2.spec

* Sat Sep 8 2012  Rob Janes <janes.rob gmail com> 2.1-1

• generates distributable rpm that downloads and unpacks the fonts at install time, not rpmbuild time
• available at https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/specs/msttcore-fonts-2.1-1.spec

* Sat Sep 8 2012  Rob Janes <janes.rob gmail com> 2.0-7

• added EUupdate.EXE European Union Expansion Update circa May 2007
• refactored sourceforge mirror stuff
• replaced wget with curl, which seems to be installed by default on fedora
• replaced ttmkfdir with mkfontscale and mkfontdir.  This creates fonts.dir file for the core X font system.  ttmkfdir has been supersceded by mkfontdir - they both create fonts.dir but mkfontdir is part of xorg-x11-font-utils.
• removed 09-msttcorefonts.conf and refactored fc-cache lines.  fc-cache walks subdirectories so the 09-msttcorefonts.conf to add the /usr/share/font/msttcore is redundant.  fc-cache indexes for the Xft font system, not the legacy core X font system.
• added 09-msttcore-fontpath.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d for core X font system
• added xset fp+ to add the fontdirectory to core X font for the current session so the installer doesn't have to relogin.
• available at https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/specs/msttcore-fonts-2.0-7.spec

* Sun Sep 9 2012 Daniel Resare <noa resare com> 2.5-1

• Daniel Resare: "Ouch, that was a few years. Due to the kind contributions of Deven T. Corzine we now have an updated (and working!) package again."
• Almost the same feature set as Dennis Johnson's 2.0-6
  
• updates the hardcoded sourceforge mirror list - does not use sourceforge's mirror redirect (meaning it will get out of date again).
  
• replaces deprecated BuildPrereq with BuildRequires
  
• available at http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.5-1.spec
  

* Mon Aug 15 2011  Dennis Johnson 2.0-6

• BuildRequires ttmkfdir, cabextract, wget
• removes Requires
• fixes sourceforge mirror
• generates 09-msttcorefonts.conf
• restores call to ttmkfdir in %install section
• available from http://fenris02.fedorapeople.org/msttcore-fonts-2.0-6.spec

* Sat Dec 11 2010  Hnr Kordewiner  hnr kordewiner com> 2.0-5

• move 09-msttcorefonts.conf to this spec file
• drop %{ttmkfdir} - again
• msttcore fonts history site setup at http://moin.kordewiner.com/helpdesk/fedora/mscorefonts
• available from http://moin.kordewiner.com/helpdesk/fedora/mscorefonts?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=msttcore-fonts-2.0-5.spec

* Mon Jun 07 2010 Zied FAKHFAKH fzied at dottn com 2.0-3

• removed chkfontpath dependency for Fedora >= 9
• removed prerun and post chkconfig reference
• divergent development, same purpose as Andrew Bartlett's but derived from Noa Resare's 2.0-1
• available from http://moin.kordewiner.com/helpdesk/fedora/mscorefonts?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=msttcorefonts-2.0-3.spec

* Tue Jun 16 2009  Dennis Johnson 2.0-4

• Provides msttcorefonts
• Requires ttmkfdir, cabextract
• restores call to ttmkfdir in %install section
• available from http://fenris02.fedorapeople.org/msttcore-fonts-2.0-4.spec

* Wed Jun 25 2008  Muayyad Saleh Alsadi <alsadi gmail com> 2.0-3

• drop %{ttmkfdir} completely

* Mon Feb 18 2008 Andrew Bartlett <abartlet samba org> 2.0-2

• Make work with Fedora 9 fonts system
• available from http://moin.kordewiner.com/helpdesk/fedora/mscorefonts?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=msttcorefonts-2.0-2.spec

* Sun May 07 2006 Noa Resare <noa resare com> 2.0-1

• checksums downloads
• random mirror
• use redistributable word 97 viewer as source for tahoma.ttf
• available from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec

* Mon Mar 31 2003 Daniel Resare <noa resare com> 1.3-4

• updated microsoft link
• updated sourceforge mirrors

* Mon Nov 25 2002 Daniel Resare <noa resare com> 1.3-3

• the install dir is now deleted when the package is uninstalled
• executable permission removed from the fonts
• executes fc-cache after install if it is available

* Thu Nov 07 2002 Daniel Resare <noa resare com> 1.3-2

• Microsoft released a new service-pack. New url for Tahoma font.

* Thu Oct 24 2002 Daniel Resare <noa resare com> 1.3-1

• removed python hack
• removed python hack info from description
• made tahoma inclusion depend on define
• added some info on the ttmkfdir define

* Tue Aug 27 2002 Daniel Resare <noa resare com> 1.2-3

• fixed spec error when tahoma is not included

* Tue Aug 27 2002 Daniel Resare <noa resare com> 1.2-2

• removed tahoma due to unclear licensing
• parametrized ttmkfdir path (for mandrake users)
• changed description text to reflect the new microsoft policy

* Thu Aug 15 2002 Daniel Resare <noa resare com> 1.2-1

• changed distserver because microsoft no longer provides them

* Tue Apr 09 2002 Daniel Resare <noa resare com> 1.1-3

• fixed post/preun script to actually do what they were supposed to do

* Tue Mar 12 2002 Daniel Resare <noa resare com> 1.1-2

• removed cabextact from this package
• added tahoma font from ie5.5 update

* Fri Aug 25 2001 Daniel Resare <noa metamatrix se>

• initial version