[TIP] core web font installer

[Michael A. Peters]

Hi guys -

I wrote a small script for the purpose of fetching and installing the Microsoft Core Web
fonts.

There's a sourceforge project for it too, but I think my way is better. It's
certainly easier.

It either creates an rpm for you on the fly (if you have a multi-user system and want the
fonts available for all users), or you can have it just dump the fonts into your ~/.fonts
directory.

It also asks you want fonts you want installed - four of them I don't want because I
have substitutes that are better, for example - and I want fontconfig to make those
substitutes (which it won't do if the real font is installed)

The script does not need to be run as root.
If you choose the rpm option, the resulting rpm will of course need to be installed as
root.

It uses zenity (part of gnome) and it needs cabextract installed (in extras - yum install
cabextract)

to grab it and use it -


wget http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/misc/coreweb_font_installer.sh.gz
gunzip coreweb_font_installer.sh.gz
sh coreweb_font_installer.sh

[Danny.Terweij]

From: "Michael Peters" <mpeters(a)mac.com&gt;

>  I wrote a small script for the purpose of fetching and installing the
Microsoft Core Web fonts.

>  to grab it and use it -
>  wget http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/misc/coreweb_font_installer.sh.gz
>  gunzip coreweb_font_installer.sh.gz
>  sh coreweb_font_installer.sh 
You did not tell that you must inside KDE/GNOME, open a terminal and then
grab/install.

Any way to use it remote at ssh level?

Danny

[Michael A. Peters]

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 03:14 +0100, Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net
wrote:

>  
>  You did not tell that you must inside KDE/GNOME, open a terminal and then
>  grab/install.
>  
>  Any way to use it remote at ssh level? 
I probably could modify it to do that.
I did specify that it uses zenity (part of gnome)

[Danny.Terweij]

From: "Michael Peters" <mpeters(a)mac.com&gt;

>  to grab it and use it -
>  wget http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/misc/coreweb_font_installer.sh.gz
>  gunzip coreweb_font_installer.sh.gz
>  sh coreweb_font_installer.sh 
Maybe you should create a new version :)

$sh coreweb_font_installer.sh
--text is not supported for this dialog

(zenity:28178): Gtk-WARNING **: Invalid icon size -1

[Les Mikesell]

On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 21:21, Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net wrote:
>  From: "Michael Peters" <mpeters(a)mac.com&gt;
>  
>  > to grab it and use it -
>  > wget http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/misc/coreweb_font_installer.sh.gz
>  > gunzip coreweb_font_installer.sh.gz
>  > sh coreweb_font_installer.sh
>  
>  Maybe you should create a new version :)
>  
>  $sh coreweb_font_installer.sh
>  --text is not supported for this dialog
>  
>  (zenity:28178): Gtk-WARNING **: Invalid icon size -1 
There's a 'no-source' .spec file that has rpmbuild do all
the heavy lifting at:
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

[Michael A. Peters]

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 03:21 +0100, Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net
wrote:
>  From: "Michael Peters" <mpeters(a)mac.com&gt;
>  
>  > to grab it and use it -
>  > wget http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/misc/coreweb_font_installer.sh.gz
>  > gunzip coreweb_font_installer.sh.gz
>  > sh coreweb_font_installer.sh
>  
>  Maybe you should create a new version :)
>  
>  $sh coreweb_font_installer.sh
>  --text is not supported for this dialog 
Which version of Fedora?
I tested it in Core 4 and devel