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

1998 Andale Mono ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP abcdefghijklmnop 0123456789
2006 Arial: bold, bold italic, italic, regular ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP abcdefghijklmnop 0123456789
1998 Arial: black ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP abcdefghijklmnop 0123456789
2007 Calabri: bold, bold italic, italic, regular ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP abcdefghijklmnop 0123456789
2007 Cambria: bold, bold italic, italic ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP abcdefghijklmnop 0123456789
2007 Consolas: bold, bold italic, italic, regular ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP abcdefghijklmnop 0123456789
2007 Constantia: bold, bold italic, italic, regular ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP abcdefghijklmnop 0123456789
2007 Corbel: bold, bold italic, italic, regular ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP abcdefghijklmnop 0123456789
1998 Comic: bold, regular ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP abcdefghijklmnop 0123456789
2000 Courier: bold, bold italic, italic, regular ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP abcdefghijklmnop 0123456789
1998 Impact ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP abcdefghijklmnop 0123456789
2006 Times: bold, bold italic, italic, regular ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP abcdefghijklmnop 0123456789
2006 Trebuchet: bold, bold italic, italic, regular ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP abcdefghijklmnop 0123456789
2006 Verdana: bold, bold italic, italic, regular ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP abcdefghijklmnop 0123456789
1998 Webdings ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP abcdefghijklmnop 0123456789

How to INSTALL

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

yum install curl cabextract xorg-x11-font-utils fontconfig


Install the fonts

rpm -i https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm


The Source

You can find the source at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mscorefonts2.

The cab files

You can find the Microsoft cab files containing the fonts at

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

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

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


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


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


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

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

* Mon Aug 15 2011  Dennis Johnson 2.0-6


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


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


* Tue Jun 16 2009  Dennis Johnson 2.0-4


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

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


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


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


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


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