Installing Microsoft TrueType fonts for Document Exporter

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Document Exporter for Cameo Collaborator requires Microsoft TrueType fonts to be installed on the server. Otherwise, PDF/HTML document export will fail. Alternative font packages, such as dejavu-serif-fonts, provide support for TrueType fonts and will work with Document Exporter. However, only Microsoft TrueType font will guarantee that the exported document retains original document formatting. 

There are two options for installing Microsoft TrueType fonts on a Linux server:

1. Install fonts directly from online RPM package
2. Install fonts offline using an online staging environment

Prerequisites

• EPEL package repository must be installed and enabled.
• cabextract package must be installed from EPEL repo.

Online RPM installation method for RHEL 8

To install the Microsoft TrueType fonts directly from online RPM package on a Red Hat 8 system:

1. Install Microsoft TrueType Core RPM package:
   

   sudo rpm -i https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm

2. After installation, use the fc-list command to verify installation:
   

   fc-list | grep -i <font name>

   
   
3. Restart Web Application Platform.

General method for installing font package

The steps provided here describes a universal method for installing the Microsoft TrueType font package on a Linux system. An online staging environment is required if installing on an air-gapped system.

To install the Microsoft TrueType font package:

1. Download font installer package to a predefined working path and extract:
   

   WORK_PATH=/opt/local/install/temp
   sudo mkdir -p $WORK_PATH && cd $WORK_PATH
   wget  https://phoenixnap.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/sources/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6.tar.gz
   tar --strip-components=4 -xzf msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6.tar.gz -C $WORK_PATH msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6/usr/lib/msttcore-fonts-installer/
   sudo mkdir -p $WORK_PATH/msttcore-fonts
   ./refresh-msttcore-fonts.sh -d $WORK_PATH/msttcore-fonts

2. Verify font extraction and generate the font package for installation:
   

   ls -la $WORK_PATH/*.ttf
   sudo pushd $WORK_PATH/msttcore-fonts && tar -cvzf $WORK_PATH/msttcore-fonts.tar.gz *.ttf && popd

3. If installing to an air-gapped environment, copy font package to the Document Exporter server.
4. Install fonts to the server and verify installation:
   

   sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/msttcore
   tar -xzf msttcore-fonts.tar.gz -C /usr/share/fonts/msttcore/
   ls -la /usr/share/fonts/msttcore
   sudo fc-cache -fv

5. Restart Web Application Platform.