I have installed ~1000 OpenType fonts to my laptop. Gedit and stuff worked fine and I was able to see these fonts, but lately I found out that OpenOffice and Abiword do not support OpenType fonts ( http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Font-FAQ#Are_OTF_fonts_supported_in_OpenOffice.org_2 ). Which is crazy to me. I tried OOO 3 but OOO 3 Beta doesn't, either. I wonder if any of you have any ideas to use those fonts to use in my documents? I don't mind using alternatives.
PS: After some minutes googling around, I had the confirmation from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=645363&page=2 . But converting 1000 fonts with FontForge isn't really a choice for me. It's so painful to open each of them, and save as... it may drive me crazy. ************************************* I am pretty sure AbiWord doesn't support .otf fonts. Neither does OpenOffice. Both are treating this not as a bug, but as a feature request which seems not to be getting top priority. This is a shame, since most of the major font producers have converted over all their libraries to OpenType. Linux itself should be able to handle the fonts through fontconfig, and they should be available in Gedit and some other applications. Check to see if these fonts are available in Gedit; if they are, then they are properly installed but they won't be available to you in AbiWord. A workaround is to convert the fonts to .ttf using FontForge. You will lose some of the special features of OpenType (ligatures, special kerning, etc.) but you should be able to use them in AbiWord and OpenOffice.org. ************************************* -- "Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". http://tnhh.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
