On Fri, 4 Aug 2017 13:31:59 -0700
King Beowulf <[email protected]> dijo:

>Are these fonts the old style adobe type 1 or truetype (TTF) or
>opentype (OTF)?  LO dropped support for type 1 and this, I suspect,
>may be the reason.

LO dropped support for Type 1 fonts - I was unaware of this, but I just
checked and sure enough, none of my Type 1 fonts can be selected in
Writer (4.2.8.2 on Xubuntu 14.04). Fortunately I rarely use them any
more, and they still appear in Scribus.

I wonder if it was because Type 1 technology is owned by Adobe, not
open source. But then, if memory serves, TrueType was cooked up by Apple
and/or Microsoft to get around the Type 1 monopoly held by Adobe, so is
TT not also closed source? And later didn't Adobe and Microsoft
collaborate on creating OTF? 

This curiositizes me.
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