Can't use microsoft fonts

Loving the way this OS looks and feels, but it wont let me use microsoft fonts in office suites. I've already gone back to Ubuntu as this is such a dealbreaker. Does anyone know how to fix this? I've been using WPS Office on Freya 64bit.

 

Hi Barnics,

you can download the wps-symbol-fonts here: http://ul.to/5kuq220y
(Mirror: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hpn8s6n1wfhf36x/wps_symbol_fonts.zip )

Extract every *.ttf file to a fonts folder and rebuild the fonts cache. Example:

Code (Text):

sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/symbol-fonts
sudo unzip ~/Downloads/wps_symbol_fonts.zip -d /usr/share/fonts/truetype/symbol-fonts
sudo fc-cache -fv

Now restart WPS. The error eessage should be gone.

 

Eh, none of those are microsoft fonts. I've already installed ttf fonts anyway. They just dont work in WPS office, but do in other programs

 

Which fonts are you missing? For example Arial, Times New Roman, etc is there:

 

They're all there, but they don't work. For example, when I try and use times new roman, it just automatically switches to another font

 

Hi Barnics

This seems to be only a simple display Bug. It does switch back the language in this form, yes, but in real it's still writing with that font you choosed:



Give feedback to the developers (Writer > Help > Feedback by eMail), that's the best way how get it better and better for linux.

 

Maybe it is a matter of rights. For me I also copied all the ttf-fonts from my Windows/Fonts-directory to a hidden .fonts-directory in my home folder, cause I am the only one that is logged in.

After opening WPS Office the fonts are there, and also function the way they also work in Windows.

So try to make a folder in your home directory, called .fonts - don't forget the dot!, and you should tell your file manager to show also hidden files - and then copy all the .ttf-fonts from your Fonts-folder under Windows to .fonts, and then it should work.

Good luck!

paulus

 

I tried that and it didnt work. I have had them working in WPS office in other distros

 

Sorry for you it didn't work out.

You might try to delete, or better purge WPS Office, and then install again. See if this works, as I tend to believe that the error is within WPS Office. The more as you stated that the ttf-fonts do work in other programs.

Hope that helps.

paulus

 

Thanks for the advice, but I've tried that too, and it hasn't worked. It's weird because I haven't has an issue using MS fonts on any of the other distros I've used.

 

Has you solved the probrem?

 

I had an issue with MS fonts in WPS Office because of this bug. After deleting "/etc/fonts/conf.d/31-croscore-elementary.conf" it works normal and I can use MS fonts with WPS office. This solution was taken from here