How to use windows fonts in Linux WPS (kingsoft-office)

WPS (kingsoft-office) is one of the best office software in Linux. If you're still using LibreOffice, you must have a try! Of course free.

Chinese:  http://community.wps.cn/or http://linux.wps.cn/

English: http://wps-community.org/

An  annoying problem is that you can't use some non-free font in Linux which are common and popular in Windows like "Times New Roman" directly. Because the publishers of WPS cannot package them directly without legal problems. But as users, you can just copy your Windows fonts to your Linux computers.

An easy step is as follow:

1, Copy everything in "C:\Windows\Fonts" to a Linux folder i.e. "/home/user/Fonts".

Note: the content looks totally different between opened in "C:\Windows\Fonts" and "/home/user/Fonts" or some other folders in Windows. It is because Windows did something for easier presentation when users open the folder "C:\Windows\Fonts". Font names are shown instead of font file name.

You may also delete all the ".fon" files and othersnot end with ".ttc" of ".ttf".

2, Get into your Linux font directory and create a soft link to the folder.

for example on Ubuntu:

cd /usr/share/fonts
sudo ln -s /home/user/Fonts windows_font

Now you're all set. Open your WPS Word (Kingsoft Writer), Now you can find the fonts you're familiar in Windows.

Note that all the font names are in English. So you should use Pinyin to choose Chinese fonts.