This is the tutorial on how to add microsoft TrueType font into OpenOffice.org. Do the following steps

  1. download this rpm package msttcorefonts-1.3-3.noarch.rpm (Credit to http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc4.html)
  2. using shell/terminal/konsole what ever you have to run shell command and go to directory where you save msttcorefonts-1.3-3.noarch.rpm excute this command
    # rpm -ivh msttcorefonts-1.3-3.noarch.rpm
  3. That rpm will install the font into /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts which you need to make a symbolic link to openoffice default font folder which is located at /usr/share/openoffice-[whatever version it is]/share/fonts. to do the symbolic link is to run the following command
    # ln -s /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts /usr/share/openoffice-[whatever version it is]/share/fonts
  4. restart you openoffice if your openoffice is running when you do the step above. And all Microsoft TrueType font will be available for use in openoffice.

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