Note

If you want to install the Microsoft Vista Fonts, we recommend using the fontist gem, which automates the installation of these fonts. You can install the fonts by following the steps below: Install fontist gem by running: gem install fontist Use fontist to install the Constantia font from Microsoft Vista fonts collection: fontist install Constantia For more information about the fontist gem, please visit the official site at https://fontist.org/ .

Vista TrueType fonts installer (macOS, Ubuntu)

Purpose

The vist-fonts-installer.sh script is used to install the common Microsoft Vista Fonts on macOS and Ubuntu in a way compliant with Microsoft’s font licenses.

Background

Microsoft added a family of new “ClearType Fonts” to Windows with Windows Vista and Office 2007.

They are:

• Constantia

• Corbel

• Calibri

• Cambria (with Cambria Math for math)

• Candara

• Consolas (fixed-width font)

• Meiryo (rendering for East Asian characters)

• Meiryo UI (UI font for East Asian characters)

Calibri became the default font in Microsoft Word since Word 2007 (and is still the default in Word 2016).

These fonts are available from Microsoft’s “PowerPoint Viewer 2007” (v12.0.4518.1014) which is offered as a free download.

This setup script does the following:

1. Downloads the latest Microsoft’s “PowerPointViewer.exe” using Internet Archive from the link (the file has been taken offline): https://web.archive.org/web/20171225132744/http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/7/E675FFFC-2A6D-4AB0-B3EB-27C9F8C8F696/PowerPointViewer.exe

2. Extracts (and processes) the fonts for use in macOS and Ubuntu.

Platforms supported

• macOS 10.15.2 (Catalina)

• Ubuntu 18.04

Prerequisites

macOS

Use Homebrew to install the prerequisites:

brew install cabextract

Cambria (with Cambria Math), Meiryo and Meiryo UI come in the TTC (TrueType Collection) format. macOS fully supports using TTC fonts. However, if you wish to install them in the TTF format, FontForge is necessary.

To install FontForge:

brew install fontforge

Ubuntu

Cambria (with Cambria Math), Meiryo and Meiryo UI come in the TTC (TrueType Collection) format. Ubuntu does not support using TTC fonts by default, so FontForge is necessary to extract those fonts into TTF.

Use apt-get to install the prerequisites:

# as root
apt-get install curl cabextract fontforge

Usage

General

macOS

As simple as:

curl -Ls https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metanorma/vista-fonts-installer/master/vista-fonts-installer.sh | bash

The following environment variables are available to configure installation behavior:

CONVERT_TTF

Set to true to expand all TTC files into TTF files (e.g. export CONVERT_TTF=true). This is by default false.

RENAME_FONTS

Set to true to rename TTC/TTF files into their font name (e.g. cambriai.ttf will become Cambria Italic.ttf). For macOS this is by default true. Set to false to disable.

MS_FONT_PATH

Set to your desired installation path. On macOS it is by default set to ~/Library/Fonts/Microsoft.

ACCEPT_EULA

Set to true to accept Microsoft EULA automatically.

e.g.

export CONVERT_TTF=true
export RENAME_FONTS=true
export MS_FONT_PATH=/Library/Fonts/Microsoft # this is where MS Office installs to
export ACCEPT_EULA=true
curl -Ls https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metanorma/vista-fonts-installer/master/vista-fonts-installer.sh | bash

You can also run this to set the installation path:

curl -Ls -o vista-fonts-installer.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metanorma/vista-fonts-installer/master/vista-fonts-installer.sh
chmod +x vista-fonts-installer.sh
./vista-fonts-installer.sh --accept-microsoft-eula [desired-path]

--accept-microsoft-eula

will automatically accept the EULA if this flag is passed.

The installed fonts in macOS will have these names:

TTF:

Calibri Bold Italic

Calibri Bold Italic.ttf

Calibri Bold

Calibri Bold.ttf

Calibri Italic

Calibri Italic.ttf

Calibri

Calibri.ttf

Cambria Bold Italic

Cambria Bold Italic.ttf

Cambria Bold

Cambria Bold.ttf

Cambria Italic

Cambria Italic.ttf

Candara Bold Italic

Candara Bold Italic.ttf

Candara Bold

Candara Bold.ttf

Candara Italic

Candara Italic.ttf

Candara

Candara.ttf

Consola Bold Italic

Consola Bold Italic.ttf

Consola Bold

Consola Bold.ttf

Consola Italic

Consola Italic.ttf

Consola

Consola.ttf

Constantia Bold Italic

Constantia Bold Italic.ttf

Constantia Bold

Constantia Bold.ttf

Constantia Italic

Constantia Italic.ttf

Constantia

Constantia.ttf

Corbel Bold Italic

Corbel Bold Italic.ttf

Corbel Bold

Corbel Bold.ttf

Corbel Italic

Corbel Italic.ttf

Corbel

Corbel.ttf

TTC as TTC:

Cambria, Cambria Math

cambria.ttc

Meiryo, Meiryo Italic, Meiryo UI, Meiryo UI Italic

meiryo.ttc

Meiryo Bold, Meiryo Bold Italic, Meiryo UI Bold, Meiryo UI Bold Italic

meiryob.ttc

TTC in TTF:

Cambria

Cambria.ttf

Cambria Math

Cambria Math.ttf

Meiryo Bold Italic

Meiryo Bold Italic.ttf

Meiryo Bold

Meiryo Bold.ttf

Meiryo Italic

Meiryo Italic.ttf

Meiryo

Meiryo.ttf

Meiryo UI Bold Italic

Meiryo UI Bold Italic.ttf

Meiryo UI Bold

Meiryo UI Bold.ttf

Meiryo UI Italic

Meiryo UI Italic.ttf

Meiryo UI

Meiryo UI.ttf

Ubuntu

As simple as:

# as root
curl -Ls https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metanorma/vista-fonts-installer/master/vista-fonts-installer.sh | bash

Or using sudo:

curl -Ls https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metanorma/vista-fonts-installer/master/vista-fonts-installer.sh | sudo bash

The following environment variables are available to configure installation behavior:

CONVERT_TTF

Set to true to expand all TTC files into TTF files (e.g. export CONVERT_TTF=true). This is by default false.

RENAME_FONTS

Set to true to rename TTC/TTF files into their font name (e.g. cambriai.ttf will become Cambria Italic.ttf). For Ubuntu this is by default false. Set to true to enable.

MS_FONT_PATH

Set to your desired installation path. On Ubuntu it is by default set to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/vista.

ACCEPT_EULA

Set to true to accept Microsoft EULA automatically.

e.g.

export CONVERT_TTF=true
export MS_FONT_PATH=~/fonts/truetype/vista
export ACCEPT_EULA=true
curl -Ls https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metanorma/vista-fonts-installer/master/vista-fonts-installer.sh | bash

Alternatively, you can run:

curl -Ls -o vista-fonts-installer.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metanorma/vista-fonts-installer/master/vista-fonts-installer.sh
chmod +x vista-fonts-installer.sh
./vistra-fonts-installer.sh --accept-microsoft-eula [desired-path]

--accept-microsoft-eula

will automatically accept the EULA if this flag is passed.

The installed fonts in Ubuntu will have these names:

Calibri Bold Italic

calibriz.ttf

Calibri Bold

calibrib.ttf

Calibri Italic

calibrii.ttf

Calibri

calibri.ttf

Cambria Bold Italic

cambriaz.ttf

Cambria Bold

cambriab.ttf

Cambria Italic

cambriai.ttf

Candara Bold Italic

candaraz.ttf

Candara Bold

candarab.ttf

Candara Italic

candarai.ttf

Candara

candara.ttf

Consola Bold Italic

consolaz.ttf

Consola Bold

consolab.ttf

Consola Italic

consolai.ttf

Consola

consola.ttf

Constantia Bold Italic

constanz.ttf

Constantia Bold

constanb.ttf

Constantia Italic

constani.ttf

Constantia

constan.ttf

Corbel Bold Italic

corbelz.ttf

Corbel Bold

corbelb.ttf

Corbel Italic

corbeli.ttf

Corbel

corbel.ttf

TTC as TTC:

Cambria, Cambria Math

cambria.ttc

Meiryo, Meiryo Italic, Meiryo UI, Meiryo UI Italic

meiryo.ttc

Meiryo Bold, Meiryo Bold Italic, Meiryo UI Bold, Meiryo UI Bold Italic

meiryob.ttc

TTC in TTF:

Cambria

cambria.ttf

Cambria Math

cambriam.ttf

Meiryo Bold Italic

meiryoz.ttf

Meiryo Bold

meiryob.ttf

Meiryo Italic

meiryoi.ttf

Meiryo

meiryo.ttf

Meiryo UI Bold Italic

meiryouiz.ttf

Meiryo UI Bold

meiryouib.ttf

Meiryo UI Italic

meiryouii.ttf

Meiryo UI

meiryoui.ttf

Copyright

Ribose Inc.

This script is based on:

• Maxwel Leite’s https://gist.github.com/maxwelleite/10774746/raw/ttf-vista-fonts-installer.sh

• Ronald Tse’s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ronaldtse/b53c05030a1eee94087aa9f80592b88b/raw/macos-vista-fonts-installer.sh (which is also based on Leite’s script)