Option 1 Many Microsoft fonts are part of the mscorefonts package. Install: sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer However, it seems that the two fonts in question of the msttcorefonts package, so you are left only with: Option 2 Since you have MS Office installed on your second computer, you already have properly licensed copies of those fonts.
Make a backup copy of them and bring those to your Ubuntu machine. You can:. either double-click on each file (Calibri consists of 6 files and Cambria 4) and click the Install font button, or. copy all files to the.fonts folder.
It is a hidden folder (it's name starts with a point). If it does not exist, just create it running the following command: mkdir.fonts. You might have grabbed MS's which includes the fonts (for 'free'), although the terms of use include: 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. My hunch is that MS won't know that you've installed them under Ubuntu (or is your machine dual-booting?), but. If you're forced to use alternatives, these would be my recommendations: Calibri alternatives: either or would do. The differences from Calibri are more pronounced in the italics. Cambria alternatives are trickier: but either or would get you most of the way there.
Droid and Cambria share a designer in Steve Matteson, so that accounts for some 'family feel'. Or just go with new choices altogether!:) (PT Serif + PT Sans? Linux Libertine + Biolinum? Gentium Book + Source Sans Pro?) The problem in that case is that you can't be sure that they're installed on other people's systems if you're sharing files.
No doubt about it: it's a pain.