On 08/03/2017 04:39 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>    Just upgraded LO to version 5.4.0 and most of my fonts are no longer
> available to the application. They are all, of course, still in their
> subdirectories in /usr/share/fonts/ but LO-5.0.4 isn't seeing them.
> 
>    I've run fc-cache -f -v with no effect.
> 
>    Suggestions?
> 
> Rich
>

Altough Rich has resolved this with moving to Calligra (part of KDE),
I'll toss this out for any others.  Rich didn't say which Type 1 (or
missing fonts) he has been using. With F/OSS there is always a good work
around.

TrueType and Opentype, especially, are the new "hotness", in particular
when supporting unicode (utf8 etc). Adobe Type 1 fonts have limitations
and are largely deprecated.  Opentype is especially designed for
cross-platform compatibility: The on screen and printed document will
look the same no matter the Operating System, software or device.

1.  You can use fontforge to convert font formats.  For example:
https://fontforge.github.io/faq.html#outline-conversion

You can also often find that someone has already done this. If you
PURCHASED (!) type 1 font packs from Adobe, you may be able to download
the equivalent TTF or OTF versions:
http://www.adobe.com/products/type/opentype/opentype-T1-faq.html

2.  If you are using standard MS Windows fonts, you can install the
webcore-fonts package in your linux distro distribution. Although
desigbed for the screen for website display, they work quite well as

3.  Libreoffice and other office apps allow you to set a font substition
table.  When you import a document the table will be used to replace the
missing font with another, equivalent font from available TTF and OTF
fonts.  It is a bit tedious to set up, but when done, does work well.

-Ed
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