font windows >> linux

Can I use font from Windows on Linux ?

How?

I have Ubuntu installation..

The short answer is, Yes you can.

The longer answer is You certainly can, but I'm not entirely sure how to do it.

I'm running Slack, but when I did it I just used the Font Installer that comes with KDE (in the KDE control panel). This seems to be by far the easiest way to do this. I presume that Gnome also has such a beast, but I haven't used gnome in, well, ever, so I can't say with any certainty.

I run XFCE as a window manager, but I ran KDE just long enough to install fonts. The fonts settings are specific to your X server (or more specifically your X server's Font Server) and not your window manager, so that might be a quick shortcut if you don't normally use KDE but you already have it installed.

Make a symlink to your fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype or /usr/share/fonts/type1/

That's it. They'll all be there. It will also parse the directories, so you don't have to have a million files in the truetype directory.

This works for Ubuntu 6.06, at least (and it's with XFCE to boot).