Even if you use OpenOffice, you might still want all the Microsoft TrueType fonts so that documents created using Word or PowerPoint look as they were supposed to when you open them with OpenOffice. Also, with the Microsoft Fonts installed we browsing will be better since the pages will look as the designer originally intended them to. Most webpages are designed with Microsoft fonts in mind. The stylesheet specify these fonts. On Linux, when these specified fonts are not available on your computer, they are replaced with generic equivalents. With these fonts installed, you will see the page as it was designed. To install the fonts, all you need to do in Ubuntu is to install the msttcorefonts package.
There are two packages associated with installing Microsoft fonts on Ubuntu Linux.
They can be installed with the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts ttf-xfree86-nonfree
These packages are available from the Multiverse repository
in lucid or ubuntu 10.04 just install ubuntu-restricted-extras package
see:-http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
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