[K12OSN] package request: msttcorefonts

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Fri Jun 11 01:52:12 UTC 2004


On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Les Mikesell wrote:

>In the next release could the clever "get.package" method be
>used to allow installing the fonts Microsoft once released
>using the technique at: http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/?
>(It's basically a .spec file that builds your own RPM by
>getting the fonts in the .exe file that can be redistributed
>and extracting them locally).  I've noticed some web sites look
>a lot better with these installed.

Yeah, that would be easy to do. Perhaps I should say it *was*
easy to do, I already build a K12LTSP 4.1 version to test it out.

I'll try to get K12LTSP 3.1 & 4.0 packages built tonight, time
permitting.

-Eric





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