How to Make Font Bigger Than 72 in Microsoft Word

This article explains how to install TrueType Microsoft fonts and emulate Windows' font rendering.

Installation

Using fonts from a Windows partition

If there is a Windows partition mounted, its fonts can be used by linking to them. It may be necessary to apply a workaround for system compressed files in order to read the font files.

Note: Users of google-chrome ^AUR should opt to copy as symlinked fonts cause Chrome to crash.

For example, if the Windows C:\ partition is mounted at /windows:

# ln -s /windows/Windows/Fonts /usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts        

Then regenerate the fontconfig cache:

# fc-cache --force        

Alternatively, copy the Windows fonts to /usr/share/fonts/:

# mkdir /usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts # cp /windows/Windows/Fonts/* /usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/ # chmod 644 /usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/*        

Then regenerate the fontconfig cache:

# fc-cache --force        

The fonts can also be found in a Windows ISO file. The format of the image file containing the fonts in the ISO is either WIM (Windows Imaging Format) if the ISO is downloaded online or ESD (Windows Electronic Software Download) if it is built with Windows' Media Creation Tool. Extract the sources/install.esd or the sources/install.wim file from the .iso and look for a Windows/Fonts directory within this file. It can be extracted using 7z (in p7zip) or wimextract (in wimlib). See an example below using 7z:

$ 7z e          Win10_1709_English_x64.iso          sources/install.wim $ 7z e install.wim 1/Windows/{Fonts/"*".{ttf,ttc},System32/Licenses/neutral/"*"/"*"/license.rtf} -ofonts/ $ 7z e install.wim Windows/{Fonts/"*".{ttf,ttc},System32/Licenses/neutral/"*"/"*"/license.rtf} -ofonts/ # Windows 7        

The fonts and the license will be located in the fonts directory.

Current packages

Note: These packages do require access to a Windows 7/8/10/11 and/or a Office 2007 setup or installation media, consult corresponding PKGBUILD for details.

• ttf-office-2007-fonts ^AUR — Office 2007 fonts
• ttf-win7-fonts ^AUR — Windows 7 fonts
• ttf-ms-win8 ^AUR — Windows 8.1 fonts
• ttf-ms-win10 ^AUR — Windows 10 fonts
• ttf-ms-win11 ^AUR — Windows 11 fonts

Legacy packages

Note: The fonts provided by these packages are out-of-date and are missing modern hinting instructions and the full character sets. It is recommended to use the above packages.

ttf-ms-fonts ^AUR includes:

• Andalé Mono
• Arial
• Arial Black
• Comic Sans
• Courier New
• Georgia
• Impact
• Lucida Sans
• Lucida Console
• Microsoft Sans Serif
• Symbol
• Times New Roman
• Trebuchet
• Verdana
• Webdings
• Wingdings

You can also obtain ttf-tahoma ^AUR which, as you might expect, contains Tahoma.

ttf-vista-fonts ^AUR includes:

• Calibri
• Cambria
• Candara
• Consolas
• Constantia
• Corbel

Fontconfig rules useful for MS Fonts

Often websites specify the fonts using generic names (helvetica, courier, times or times new roman) and a rule in fontconfig maps these names to free fonts (Liberation, Google CrOS, GUST TeX Gyre...). The substitutions are defined in /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf.

To make full use of the Ms Windows fonts it is necessary to create a rule mapping those generic names to the Ms Windows specific fonts contained in the various packages above:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig>        <alias binding="same">          <family>Helvetica</family>          <accept>          <family>Arial</family>          </accept>        </alias>        <alias binding="same">          <family>Times</family>          <accept>          <family>Times New Roman</family>          </accept>        </alias>        <alias binding="same">          <family>Courier</family>          <accept>          <family>Courier New</family>          </accept>        </alias> </fontconfig>        

It is also useful to associate serif,sans-serif,monospace fonts in your favourite browser to MS fonts.

Windows 8

The ttf-ms-win8 ^AUR split package is intended as a more up-to-date replacement for ttf-ms-fonts ^AUR , ttf-vista-fonts ^AUR and ttf-win7-fonts ^AUR .

Although it provides newer versions of the fonts, it cannot automatically download the fonts due to license issues.

Note: usage of Microsoft fonts outside running Windows system is prohibited by EULA (although in certain countries EULA is invalid). Please consult Microsoft license before using fonts.

You can acquire fonts from an installed and fully updated Windows 8.1 system. Any edition of Windows 8.1 build Windows 8.1 6.3.9600.17238 will work.

On the installed Windows 8.1 system fonts are usually located in %WINDIR%\Fonts and license file is %SYSTEM32%\license.rtf.

You need the files listed in the source=() array. Place them in the same directory as this PKGBUILD file, then run makepkg.

makepkg --pkg ttf-ms-win8 will make just the Windows 8.1 core fonts package which should cover even more than ttf-ms-fonts ^AUR .

How to Make Font Bigger Than 72 in Microsoft Word

Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Microsoft_fonts

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