Font wanted

[Zanne]

I have just got an Acer One notebook, purely for emails and internet. It appears to include Adobe Reader. Trebuchet MS is NOT one of the fonts which this package includes, and therefore I cannot read attachments in said font. How can I get it into Adobe? It is no use sending me a mile of code, I don't know how to GBH this tiny opaque system. Advice to a frustrated and baffled newbie would be gratefully received.

[saivin]

Which linux are you using? Search for ttf-msfonts or ttf-mscorefonts for your linux distro...

[Zanne]

Thanks for reply. I got the notebook for the sake of simplicity. I have no idea "what Linux" it contains, I thought all Linux was simply Linux. How naive. Now I suppose I have to find out what a "distro" is. Honestly I have had it up to here with computers, and am tempted to revert to paper and ink.

[b2bwild]

Check here for information on Linux.
Linux Online - About the Linux Operating System
Linux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If you dont know what distro you are using.

Run these commands.

mkdir ~/.fonts

cd ~/.fonts

wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourc...s/trebuc32.exe

cabextract trebuc32.exe

Thats all, cabextract is by default installed on most desktop distros.

[Zanne]

Thanks b2b, I shall give it a go.

Zanne

[saivin]

wild,
is .cab similar to .zip or .rar? or it is more along the lines of a tar archive...? you pointed me to a completely new direction... never had heard of it though probably used it all along.. thanks man...

[b2bwild]

There are two types on cabs, one is compressed using zip compression, and another is Microsoft InstallShield Cab.
Here "cabextract" is just a command, it also extracts .exe files, not just .cab
Normally in Windows archivers like WinRAR, WinZIP, 7z also extracts the .cab
but in Linux rar,zip,7z will only extract their own formats.