[OpenIndiana-discuss] TrueType Fonts

[Mark Creamer]

Makes sense about the licensing. Thank you for that explanation. I see that
the fonts available at the link you supplied are packaged for Windows. How
do I place them on the OI system? Thanks again

On Thursday, December 22, 2011, Alan Coopersmith <
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 12/21/11 20:47, Mark Creamer wrote:
>>
>> One of our servers we're trying to move off of Linux and on to OI runs
>> Tomcat and Jasper Reports. Jasper is complaining that it needs Arial
font.
>> I remember once that I was able to install a truetype fonts package from
>> the OpenSolaris extras repo, but now that it is gone, is there any way to
>> get these fonts installed on OI? Im running 151a.
>
> Arial was in the extras repo because it was commercially licensed and not
> freely redistributable, so OpenIndiana can't provide that version/package.
>
> An older version of Arial is freely available from the old Microsoft
WebFonts
> pack though:   http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/webfonts/
>
> --
>        -Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>         Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
>
>

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Mark