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Ubuntu For Non-Geeks, 3rd Edition
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Ubuntu For Non-Geeks, 3rd Edition

by Rickford Grant
June 2008
Beginner
360 pages
9h 9m
English
No Starch Press
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Project 11C: Installing Microsoft Windows Core Fonts via Synaptic

Like it or not, the computing world is still pretty much a Microsoft world, and that means that the vast majority of users, even Mac users, are using Microsoft core fonts. That being the case, it is inevitable that you will have to deal with documents using fonts such as Georgia, Verdana, Times New Roman, and Courier, to name a few. Of course, your system can substitute the fonts it has for those used in the document, but in order for you to see things as they were intended and to allow others to see your documents the way you intended (web pages are good examples), it will probably behoove you to install those Microsoft core fonts on your own system.

Fortunately for you, there are ...

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