Can't install Arial.ttf from Windows / Arial is "Arial Narrow"
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I use Arch Linux, and have followed the wiki pages regarding [Fonts](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts) , [Font configuration](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration) , [Microsoft fonts](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microsoft_fonts) and [Infinality](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Infinality) .
However, it seems something is wrong with the Microsoft fonts. I copied them over from a mounted **Windows 10** installation. I first copied the fonts from
I checked all my font config files thrice, there are no rules that substitute Arial with Arial Narrow.
The Arial.TTF font is simply not installed:
C:\Windows\Fonts
to another place (in Windows), as cp
was giving me unsupported reparse point
errors on a lot of files.
I counted the number of files, there were more than 300. Using fc-cache -rv
, only **217** fonts were detected.
The problem is most noticable to me as Arial
resolves to Arial Narrow
. That looks like crap:

fc-list | grep -i 'arial' | cut -d':' -f 2,3
:
/usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/ARIALN.TTF: Arial,Arial Narrow
/usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/ARIALNB.TTF: Arial,Arial Narrow
/usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/ARIALNI.TTF: Arial,Arial Narrow
/usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/ARIALNBI.TTF: Arial,Arial Narrow
/usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/ARLRDBD.TTF: Arial Rounded MT Bold
/usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/ARIALUNI.TTF: Arial Unicode MS
fc-match arial
:
ARIALN.TTF: "Arial" "Narrow"
I managed to do it in the past with **Windows 8**. Could that be the reason (Windows 10 now)?
Update
=
It gets even more crazy. I've copied fonts from Windows 8 now and rebuilt the cache. Arial appears to be installed and works in a few applications **except Firefox**. It renders Arial as completely blank!
Asked by MarioDS
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Oct 21, 2015, 06:47 PM
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