With the M$ Fonts installed we browsing will be better since the pages will look as the designer originally intended them to. Most webpages are designed with M$ fonts in mind. The stylesheet specify these fonts. On Linux, when these specified fonts are not available on your computer, they are replaced with generic equivalents. With these fonts installed, you will see the page as it was designed. To install the fonts, all you need to do (i use Ubuntu) is to install the msttcorefonts package.

You can install the M$ core fonts by installing the msttcorefonts package. To do this, enable the “Universe” component of the repositories. This is done by default in Feisty. After you do that, use the following command from the command line:

This will give you the core fonts, but if there are other TrueType fonts that you want installed, it is as easy as copying the font files to the /usr/share/fonts directory.

After installing new fonts, you will have to log out and log in again to be able to see and use the new fonts. If you want to avoid this, you can regenerate the fonts cache by issuing the following command:

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