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Installing Vista Fonts inUbuntu September 16, 2007 Posted by Carthik in guides, looks and feel, microsoft, packages, ubuntu. 475 comments Microsoft s new ClearType fonts for Vista are great. The fonts include Constantia, Corbel, Calibri, Cambria, Candara and Consolas.Getting them installed in Ubuntu is a breeze, thanks to a script I found.To install the Vista ClearType fonts in Ubuntu, you need to install cabextract first. Cabextract is a utility found in the universe repository, so before you run the following command, make sure you have universe enabled in your repository list. Once this is done, install cabextract using:$sudo apt-get install cabextractThen, once that is done, use this script to install the Vista fonts. Create a file called vista-fonts-installer.sh in your home (~) directory.Then open up a text editor and copy and paste the script into that file.Do a chmod a+x ~/vista-fonts-installer.sh to make the file/script executable.Then run the script using:$ ~/vista-fonts-installer.shThe script downloads the Powerpoint Viewer installer from microsoft.com, and then extracts the Vista cleartype fonts using cabextract. These fonts are then installed in the ~/.fonts directory.Please remember that the ClearType Vista fonts are not free as in they are not GPL-ed or made available under a re-distributable license. Since you are downloading the fonts from the MS website, and since you might already have a Windows XP/Vista license, this is not a crime, but consider yourself warned against the perils of supporting closed systems

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