[SOLVED] Help Required Installing True Type Fonts

I am currently using Xfce4.8 and have installed xorg-fonts-100dpi xorg-fonts-75dpi and type 1 fonts.
Now the fonts in xfce are starting to look good, menu fonts on firefox look good but many webpages
are using ugly non aliased fonts.
I would like to include the ttf-ms-fonts and have found the folowing wiki page:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13030
I have installed the dependemcies
fontconfig xorg-font-utils xorg-fonts-encodings
and also just one font:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/verdan32.exe
I am unsure how to install the verdana font so any help appreciated, thanks in advance.
Last edited by hal8000 (2011-05-21 16:05:49)

Thanks Guys, I am now having trouble with makepkg
I have unzipp ttf-ms-fonts
[anc@orac ttf-ms-fonts]$ ls
LICENSE PKGBUILD ttf-ms-fonts.install
When I run makepkg this error appears:
[anc@orac ttf-ms-fonts]$ makepkg
==> ERROR: Fakeroot must be installed if using the 'fakeroot' option
in the BUILDENV array in /etc/makepkg.conf.
So I check contents of /etc/makepkg.conf
--snip--
# BUILD ENVIRONMENT
# Defaults: BUILDENV=(fakeroot !distcc color !ccache check)
# A negated environment option will do the opposite of the comments below.
#-- fakeroot: Allow building packages as a non-root user
#-- distcc: Use the Distributed C/C++/ObjC compiler
#-- color: Colorize output messages
#-- ccache: Use ccache to cache compilation
#-- check: Run the check() function if present in the PKGBUILD
BUILDENV=(fakeroot !distcc color !ccache check)
#-- If using DistCC, your MAKEFLAGS will also need modification. In addition,
#-- specify a space-delimited list of hosts running in the DistCC cluster.
#DISTCC_HOSTS=""
This looks as though option fakeroot is enabled, is there anything else I need to change?

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