Install Microsoft Fonts Linux Mint
If you are a graphic artist, writer, designer, or desktop publisher, then you are likely to need specific fonts installed on your computer. For Linux users this used to be a more difficult task. The good news is that more modern distributions make font installation much easier. Gone are the days of editing your xorg.conf font path information.
Installing fonts in Ubuntu
Once you have your handy collection of True Type fonts, you are going to want to create a directory to hold them. Installing the fonts system-wide will give all users access to them. First, create a font directory in /usr/share/fonts/truetype. Call this directory newfonts. Issue the command sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/newfonts. You will have to enter your sudo password to complete this task.
Once this directory is created, place all your *ttf or *TTF files in the newfonts directory. With the fonts in place you will then need to issue the command fc-cache -f -v to make the system aware of the new fonts. Once this is done, the system knows about the new fonts and all the system users will have access to them.
There is a package in Debian GNU/Linux based systems, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc., named 'ttf-mscorefonts-installer', that will install the Microsoft True Type Core Fonts for the Web. The package can be installed via the command line, or the distributions GUI package manager (Figure 2).
If you want to make these fonts available only to specific users, then you will follow the same directions except you will add the fonts only to the users' ~/.fonts directory. If the ~/.fonts directory doesn't exist, create it with mkdir ~/.fonts (while logged into the specific users' accounts). Now move (or copy) all of the *ttf and/or *TTF files into the new directory and run fc-cache -f -v to make the users' accounts aware of the fonts.
If you have a single-user machine, go with the latter version.
Installing fonts in Fedora 7 (or higher)
- Sample output: Install MS Fonts in Dual boot with Linux and Windows. If you have dual boot system with Linux and Windows operating system, you can easily install the MS fonts from Windows C drive. All you have to do is mount the Windows partition (C:/Windows).
- If you need Microsoft fonts for your documentation you have to install them. Follow given steps to install Microsoft core fonts in Ubuntu and Linuxmint. Below method has been tested with Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Linuxmint 17 and Linuxmint 17.01.
Installing fonts in Fedora is a simpler task. You really only need to dump your *ttf or *TTF files into the user's ~/.fonts directory, log out, and log back in. The fonts will be recognized without any special tricks.
Installing MS Fonts
There are many times you will want Microsoft fonts on your system. Fortunately this is only a matter of installing the msttcorefonts package. This is done one of two ways:
on an apt-based machine:
on a yum based machine:
Both of the above instructions will complete the job for you. The former command will require you to OK the process (see Figure A below.)Figure A
This installation will prompt you to install x-ttcidfont-conf also, which is not necessary, but will add even more fonts to your system.
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Getting applications to recognize your new fonts
- OpenOffice: This one is a piece of cake. If you have installed the fonts into ~/.fonts and issued the command fc-cache -f -v,OpenOffice will be able to take advantage of them.
- Gimp: The Gimp enjoys the same ease of use as OpenOffice.
- Scribus: With Scribus you have to actually configure the new font path. To do this go to File Preferences and you will see the Font icon (see Figure B below.)
Figure B
From here you configure all aspects of the Scribus desktop publishing application.
Click on the Fonts icon and then click on the Additional Paths tab (see Figure C below.)Figure C
Click on Add and then navigate to your new font path to add the new path.
You will notice that when you click Add to add the new path, the .fonts directory doesn't show up. That is because it is a hidden directory. You will have to type in .fonts in the directory text area and click OK in order to add the hidden directory.
GNOME/KDE: Both GNOME and KDE will automatically make use of the fonts that are placed in the ~/.fonts directory. You will have to go to each environment's control panel where you can configure each to use various fonts for each element of the desktop.Gotchas
I have, on a number of occasions, taken my collection of fonts (which is rather large) and placed them all into my ~/.fonts directory only to find out that one of those fonts was being used by Firefox as the default font. In some instances, this turned out to be not so great as the 'replacement' font was not a font that should be used to view Web pages. It took me a long time to find the offending font and I now know to never add that particular font to my ~/.fonts directory. I honestly have no idea why this happened. If Firefox suddenly starts rendering pages with a rather funky font, you will have to dig through your font collection, find the offending font, and remove it from the directory.
Another gotcha: With Scribus and The Gimp, the more fonts you add, the longer it will take for the applications to start up. So if your collection is reaching into the thousands, expect those applications to take a moment to start.
All in all, adding fonts to Linux is far easier than it once was. You shouldn't have to manually edit X configuration files. With a more Windows-like approach to adding fonts, working with Linux in areas such as graphics or desktop publishing is no longer a chore.
I just switched over from Windows to Linux Mint. However, as I do web design, there are many fonts on my Windows hard disk that I would want to carry over to my Linux installation.It is possible to install fonts by double-clicking them from within a file manager and then pressing the 'install' button, but this only works for one font at a time.
As I have about five-hundred of them, I would like to install all of them at the same time.
What I've tried to do is copy over all fonts from the Windows Fonts folder (C:WindowsFonts) to /usr/share/fonts/opentype/windows_fonts and /usr/share/fonts/truetype/windows_fonts
However, none of the fonts show up correctly. Instead, programs that use those fonts read all glyphs as white boxes (e.g. 'unknown characters')
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Is there another way to install them all at once (or to automate installing them)?
Gilles3 Answers
If you need to install a lot of fonts, then copy the files to ~/.fonts or /usr/share/fonts for system-wide installation and issue the command fc-cache -fv.
There are many font managers about and most Linux Distro DE's come with one pre-installed. I use KDE and I can simply drag and drop fonts directly onto my font manager. It does the rest.
Just type Font in the search field in your application menu. Not sure if that will work for Linux Mint though.
Also it may be possible that non true type fonts don't display properly in Linux Mint as well as other types. I am guessing here and I could be totally wrong, but some of your fonts simply may not be compatible. Perhaps if you posted what fonts are not showing correctly others may be able to help further. Perhaps only a certain type is not working.
If you need all fonts available on Linux Mint/Debian (which are many: http://fonts.debian.net), you can use: