Comments on OpenOffice.org Ninja: Install Free Office 2007 Fonts for Linux and XP

Because the original post tells you how to extract...

2010-07-22T10:55:41.756-06:00

Because the original post tells you how to extract only one file with a different name. :) You're welcome BTW.

Wow, worked perfectly! Thank you! Yes, for some re...

2010-07-22T09:58:36.796-06:00

Wow, worked perfectly! Thank you! Yes, for some reason the "cabextract -F" command from above didn't work, but simply typing "cabextract O2007Cnv.exe" did. The fonts all look great now.

cabextract file.exe Then you need to extract TTF a...

2010-07-22T08:42:05.263-06:00

cabextract file.exe
Then you need to extract TTF and TTC files from O12Conv.cab (it's an uppercase o).

I'm not sure what you mean. I downloaded that file...

2010-07-22T07:47:58.149-06:00

I'm not sure what you mean. I downloaded that file, but cabextract would not work. It said, "All done, no errors" but no cab file was created. So I booted Windows and installed it. Then went back to Ubuntu and copied the fonts from C:/Windows/Fonts into my Ubuntu fonts folder. They look exactly the same.

Sorry I was remembering the wrong thing. You need ...

2010-07-21T14:15:22.499-06:00

Sorry I was remembering the wrong thing. You need to do that on this exe. http://bit.ly/bgjvtC

@ Andrew, you need to do that on a previous versio...

2010-07-21T14:12:25.019-06:00

@ Andrew, you need to do that on a previous version of the PPT viewer.

I'm also having issues with Calibri and Cambria. T...

2010-07-21T09:43:04.069-06:00

I'm also having issues with Calibri and Cambria. They look fine when zoomed in or at larger font sizes. The other four fonts always look good. But at 12px, 100% zoom, Calibri and Cambria look strange. See this screenshot. First is 12px, next is 16px. Using Ubuntu 10. However, overall this has been very useful so thanks for the tip!
http://i25.tinypic.com/sxiwls.jpg

It is simply amazing how a free software such as O...

2010-06-21T03:27:34.377-06:00

It is simply amazing how a free software such as OpenOffice.org can impact our lives... in school, business, work and home. The latest or newer version should arrest any limitations or bugs (if any). I have met many satisfied users, and though there seems to be room for improvement with regards to design, the strong and easy features outweighs weak points.

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Thanks for the guide. In Linux (Fedora 12), will ...

2010-02-17T12:02:24.145-07:00

Thanks for the guide.

In Linux (Fedora 12), will the Vista fonts be available in OpenOffice ? I have installed them to /usr/share/fonts/Vista.

For those of you using Office 2007 through wine, a...

2009-08-28T13:25:09.393-06:00

For those of you using Office 2007 through wine, a small suggestion, just navigate to your wine windows fonts folder and copy to ~/.fonts/ and run fc-cache -fv in a terminal. does the same job.

Kudos. Great tutorial.

2009-07-01T00:59:41.798-06:00

Kudos. Great tutorial.

Squishy: Does it look OK in OpenOffice.org if you ...

2009-03-23T15:42:00.000-06:00

Squishy: Does it look OK in OpenOffice.org if you zoom in close (on the screen), export to PDF, or print to paper? If I remember right on my OpenOffice.org it didn't look good on the screen until I zoomed in.

I tried this method and while it works, calibri do...

2009-03-23T13:42:00.000-06:00

I tried this method and while it works, calibri does not.
It's absolutely ugly with jaggies all over the place (openoffice & this site).

I don't understand because the calibri font is definitely there and the cache is updated..

Here is how to get a lot more fonts (all that are ...

2009-03-20T07:25:00.000-06:00

Here is how to get a lot more fonts (all that are shipped with the trial / complete version of MS Office). http://andrealazzarotto.com/2009/03/19/come-installare-i-font-di-microsoft-office-2007-in-linux/ It's in Italian but you can understand the commands and maybe auto translate it... It comes with Lucida Grande, Webdings 2, and a lot of other.

License... You may use the fonts that accompany...

2009-03-18T10:38:00.000-06:00

License
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You may use the fonts that accompany the PowerPoint Viewer only to display and print content from a device running a Microsoft Windows operating system.

This sounds like the OS of origin is the key.
In other words, this is another excellent reason (in addition to monopoly concerns) not to distribute a document using these fonts if you are not running Microsoft OS. No problem using it to read documents.

You can do something like that with the Office Ent...

2009-03-15T10:48:00.000-06:00

You can do something like that with the Office Enterprise 30 days trial and get a lot more fonts.

Fair play, great post

2009-02-10T10:53:00.000-07:00

Fair play, great post

Here's a quick link to an MSOFFICE07 install guide...

2009-01-30T16:39:00.000-07:00

Here's a quick link to an MSOFFICE07 install guide in linux...

http://kennethreitz.com/office-2007-in-linux/

thank u andrew for ur answer, Merry Christmas to y...

2008-12-05T03:09:00.000-07:00

thank u andrew for ur answer, Merry Christmas to you

Laennec

Laennec: Try substituting the font URW Palladio, w...

2008-12-04T18:15:00.000-07:00

Laennec: Try substituting the font URW Palladio, which should be available on Ubuntu. For Wingdings, I believe there is no free, legal substitute: you need to buy it or get it with Microsoft Office.

Hi Andrew, thank u so much for theses tips, i ve a...

2008-12-03T18:22:00.000-07:00

Hi Andrew,
thank u so much for theses tips,

i ve a question please: can i find with theses fonts: ""MS Reference Serif;Palatino Linotype"" and ""Wingdings 3""

i ve many documents with specials characters writing under windows, which i was able to read with microsoft office word.. but now i m using ubuntu and i can't read them

thanks in advance

Great article! FYI this process (using cabextract)...

2008-12-03T13:00:00.000-07:00

Great article! FYI this process (using cabextract) works just fine on Mac OSX too. Just install macports (if you haven't already), run 'sudo port install cabextract' and just extract the PowerPointViewer.exe and the enclosed .cab file to a tempdir. Then you can simply open the TTF files and install them. Thanks!

Brilliant! Last week the first computer illiterat...

2008-09-02T15:21:00.000-06:00

Brilliant! Last week the first computer illiterate executive where I work started sending docx files around, and the odf-integrator-converter + Power Point Viewer are working out very nicely. Now as ever, there is no excuse for paying hundreds of dollars per workstation to "upgrade" 100% obsolete and worthless software.

version 1.02 of the Vista fonts, included in a bet...

2008-06-23T14:27:00.000-06:00

version 1.02 of the Vista fonts, included in a beta update for PPViewer, look much better at lower-point resolutions. I've lost the link to the download page, though :(

I got them installed but the fonts look wretchedly...

2008-06-22T16:14:00.000-06:00

I got them installed but the fonts look wretchedly ugly in, for example, Open Office.