Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?
Thank you! On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:48 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: For Win7 systems - you can see them through Control Panel All Control Panel Items Fonts which was on the left hand side of the window. Now you can delete the fonts by right clicking on it and using the delete option[s]. To install fonts, you must have the font setting to NOT make a link to the font. That is always trouble. So from there, you just have a list of fonts in a working folder and right click on the font[s] you want to install and use the install option. That is how I do this. The only issue is you will need to know what fonts all of you packages use so you do not delete any needed ones. For myself, I have over 200 items listed on my Win7 laptop and over 500 font files in my .fonts folder on my Ubuntu desktop. On 02/25/2013 12:29 PM, anne-ology wrote: yikes ;-( and the proper way for WIN7 would be ??? ;-) I was just about to check into finding more then plopping them in; now I'll wait for further instructions. yep ... I think this 'glorified typewriter' is making me 'feel stupider stupider' ... On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 8:25 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: For the Windows users, and the Linux users, you really should use the font install procedures. For Windows, there should be a font listing in its Control Panel and a way to install fonts there. For Ubuntu users, all you have to do in click on the font and it should open the font installation window with the install button. That way you can see the font before you install it. I like that better than dumping the font into the hidden .fonts folder. This is mostly the fonts you install after the fact and not ones installed by the OS. If you are never going to use any non-English language, then do this. . . Open LibreOffice and scroll down the list of fonts in the font drop-box in the formatting toolbar. Look at the fonts that have a name on the left and glyphs on the right. This will show for dinbats and icon based fonts. ALSO it will show you glyphs for the non-English/non-Latin style of fonts. Think Arabic or an Asian language. At that point, write down all of the font names that have these fonts you do not want. Then go to a package that has a font viewer and search for the fonts, if the is no file name that matches. I have a bunch of fonts like that. To be honest, there are other places that hold the fonts for Ubuntu, so you will have to search for then. BE CAREFUL not to remove any folders or delete them permanently since you might have removed a needed for for one of your packages. My install of Ubuntu has many Middle Eastern and Asian fonts installed by default, even though I use English for my language. I may remove most of them someday, but it will be a slow process so I do not make any mistakes. If you use Ubuntu, use the Software Center and look at the font packages installed. Then remove those that are not part of your language, like India or Arabic for English. On 02/23/2013 08:23 PM, anne-ology wrote: Thanks!!! On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/23/2013 07:40 PM, anne-ology wrote: Thank you for responding; but I haven't the foggiest idea what you've said. the font directory of the distro ??? ... AAMOF ??? I would really enjoy getting rid of all those 'junk' fonts ... and finding then dropping in the good ones; but I haven't a clue as to how to so do. ok, it's probably some simple step to locate these then drop them into whatever folder ... but 'the more I learn of these glorified typewriters, the stupider I feel' ;-) ;-) ;-) AAMOF=as a matter of fact You will find a bunch of directories labelled fonts. You want one that has a list of fonts showing as subdirectories. In my distro (pclos) they're in /usr/share: [doug@linux1 fonts]$ ls -la total 184 drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Feb 19 00:22 ./ drwxr-xr-x 266 root root 12288 Feb 22 12:04 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 98304 Jun 8 2011 100dpi/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 75dpi/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 cyrillic/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 22 2011 default/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 encodings/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 12:07 java/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20480 Jun 8 2011 misc/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 OTF/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 Speedo/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 19 00:22 truetype/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 20 2012 ttf/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 TTF/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 Type1/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 12 2011 ubuntu/ drwxr-xr-x
Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?
yikes ;-( and the proper way for WIN7 would be ??? ;-) I was just about to check into finding more then plopping them in; now I'll wait for further instructions. yep ... I think this 'glorified typewriter' is making me 'feel stupider stupider' ... On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 8:25 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: For the Windows users, and the Linux users, you really should use the font install procedures. For Windows, there should be a font listing in its Control Panel and a way to install fonts there. For Ubuntu users, all you have to do in click on the font and it should open the font installation window with the install button. That way you can see the font before you install it. I like that better than dumping the font into the hidden .fonts folder. This is mostly the fonts you install after the fact and not ones installed by the OS. If you are never going to use any non-English language, then do this. . . Open LibreOffice and scroll down the list of fonts in the font drop-box in the formatting toolbar. Look at the fonts that have a name on the left and glyphs on the right. This will show for dinbats and icon based fonts. ALSO it will show you glyphs for the non-English/non-Latin style of fonts. Think Arabic or an Asian language. At that point, write down all of the font names that have these fonts you do not want. Then go to a package that has a font viewer and search for the fonts, if the is no file name that matches. I have a bunch of fonts like that. To be honest, there are other places that hold the fonts for Ubuntu, so you will have to search for then. BE CAREFUL not to remove any folders or delete them permanently since you might have removed a needed for for one of your packages. My install of Ubuntu has many Middle Eastern and Asian fonts installed by default, even though I use English for my language. I may remove most of them someday, but it will be a slow process so I do not make any mistakes. If you use Ubuntu, use the Software Center and look at the font packages installed. Then remove those that are not part of your language, like India or Arabic for English. On 02/23/2013 08:23 PM, anne-ology wrote: Thanks!!! On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/23/2013 07:40 PM, anne-ology wrote: Thank you for responding; but I haven't the foggiest idea what you've said. the font directory of the distro ??? ... AAMOF ??? I would really enjoy getting rid of all those 'junk' fonts ... and finding then dropping in the good ones; but I haven't a clue as to how to so do. ok, it's probably some simple step to locate these then drop them into whatever folder ... but 'the more I learn of these glorified typewriters, the stupider I feel' ;-) ;-) ;-) AAMOF=as a matter of fact You will find a bunch of directories labelled fonts. You want one that has a list of fonts showing as subdirectories. In my distro (pclos) they're in /usr/share: [doug@linux1 fonts]$ ls -la total 184 drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Feb 19 00:22 ./ drwxr-xr-x 266 root root 12288 Feb 22 12:04 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 98304 Jun 8 2011 100dpi/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 75dpi/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 cyrillic/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 22 2011 default/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 encodings/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 12:07 java/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20480 Jun 8 2011 misc/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 OTF/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 Speedo/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 19 00:22 truetype/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 20 2012 ttf/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 TTF/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 Type1/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 12 2011 ubuntu/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 16 2010 webcore/ Notice the names: three sets of true-types, a type 1, even cyrillic, if you happen to use Russian! All of the Latin letters can be modified with accent marks, etc. if you make a compose key. You'll also have some signs, like €, ¢, ₤, ½, ¼, ß (German ess-tset) and whatever. I thought I saw, somewhere in this thread, someone who told where to get the Microsoft fonts--these are True-Tupe, or ttf, and have the kind of fonts you want so as to look professional in whatever you write. BTW, do _not_ remove the old font directory without having one at hand to replace it with, because if you do, there will be absolutely _nothing_ readable in any program! As I have said, all the programs on the system use the fonts in that font directory. There might be one or two exceptions, but more likely not. You don't have to remove the old font directory--you can just drop the new fonts in with
Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?
I think part of the problem is that LO does place fonts in a folder that is not the system's font folder. So if the user has some DejaVu fonts already installed, LO may use its version of fonts over the ones the user installed. Also there would be some fonts in the LO list that are not in the font list for any other package. One problem may be that LO cannot install the fonts in the different distro's font folders. Windows-based, DEB-based, RPM-based, Mac-based, systems all have different ways of installing fonts. So it may be hard to get the font installation for each OS or distro of Linux to work properly. Still, there are issues with package loading up a Windows systems with all the different fonts that they want and not the user choice of fonts. Some packages require a specific font for their operation, and do not use the default system fonts. That can be a problem for users to reduce the number of fonts in their font folder[s]. Ubuntu hides many fonts in their /usr/share/fonts/ folder system. I see Type 1 fonts listed and I do not know why Ubuntu would need Type 1 fonts now that TTF and OTF fonts are the standard font format. But, I will not remove them since they were installed for a reason. The only installed fonts the system installed are the ones that were designed for Asian, India, and Arabic type of language fonts. As for the closeness between versions of Windows, or Linux, it all depends on the desktop environment and where/how they store the system values. Windows tends to change the placement of program and user data with every new version. The only thing that seems to change between a Ubuntu or Debian based distro is the desktop environment. For our windows users, that is the way the display show all of the needed items to do the work. Think the visual differences between XP, Vista, Win7, and the pain of Win8. Think of how you use the Start Button or task bar items. Linux has many different display types. Ubuntu can have its display look many different ways. My Ubuntu 12.04 can use the tile based Unity, or other desktop environments like KDE, MATE, Cinnamon, or a variety of others to change the look and feel of the desktop, making it look like different OSs, even though it is the same OS but different ways of seeing and using things. I personally have Unity, KDE and MATE installed for my Ubuntu 12.04 system. On 02/24/2013 03:22 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think Win7 and Xp are so different from each other that each would qualify as a separate distro. They are a bit like 2 distros from different families. It's not even as close as Mint or Ubuntu to Debian. Errr, the answer was Win7 but i think that was given later in this thread. Regards from Tom :) From: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sunday, 24 February 2013, 0:45 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts? distro: the operating system on your computer (Windows, Linux, OS X, etc.) AAMOF: as far as my other fonts The latter is a guess but it seems logical. So, if you would tell us one more time, what is your operating system. That will tell us the location of your font folder or folders. --Dan On 02/23/2013 07:40 PM, anne-ology wrote: Thank you for responding; but I haven't the foggiest idea what you've said. the font directory of the distro ??? ... AAMOF ??? I would really enjoy getting rid of all those 'junk' fonts ... and finding then dropping in the good ones; but I haven't a clue as to how to so do. ok, it's probably some simple step to locate these then drop them into whatever folder ... but 'the more I learn of these glorified typewriters, the stupider I feel' ;-) ;-) ;-) On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/23/2013 06:22 PM, anne-ology wrote: Then how does one get these new ones into the programs for use? As you quoted me before, you weren't reading what I said: put the ffonts in the font directory of your distro. they should then be available for any program on the machine, including LO. That's just what I did on the Mint installation. AAMOF, I deleted all the crap fonts that were on the machine--Liberation and a whole batch of Asian fonts in languages I couldn't even recognize-- and just dumped in a whole directory of usable fonts--probably True-Type, supplied on another distro that wasn't so damned PC. --doug On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/21/2013 12:30 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 02/21/2013 12:01 PM, Paddy Landau wrote: I am wondering if Libre Office has a separate set of fonts from the operating system, or at least some of the fonts. I'll explain my problem. If I have a look at Character Map
Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?
I wish you well in finding an answer to your question re. fonts. I've been wondering re. a similar issue pertaining to fonts - on this present computer, all the script-fonts seem to be missing; I wish I knew how to retrieve these from the past since I really liked using some of these. On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Paddy Landau pa...@landau.ws wrote: I am wondering if Libre Office has a separate set of fonts from the operating system, or at least some of the fonts. I'll explain my problem. If I have a look at Character Map to find a character that I want (let's say it is an aeroplane), I can find it in the Webdings font (Unicode 00d2, or Ò). See screenshot 1: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Character_Map.png But when I use that character in Libre Office and set the font to Webdings, it shows a different character, specifically an in-box. See screenshot 2: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Libre_Office_characters.png Note that not all characters do this. For example, the first 52 characters (A-Z and a-z) are correct. I would like to know how to solve this discrepancy, so that I can search for characters in Character Map (or an equivalent program) and then use them in Libre Office. (I have tried an alternative program, Specimen Font Viewer, and it shows the same thing as Character Map.) I am using Linux Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit, fully updated) with Libre Office 4.0.0.3 (installed directly from the Libre Office website). Thank you. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?
Then how does one get these new ones into the programs for use? On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/21/2013 12:30 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 02/21/2013 12:01 PM, Paddy Landau wrote: I am wondering if Libre Office has a separate set of fonts from the operating system, or at least some of the fonts. I'll explain my problem. If I have a look at Character Map to find a character that I want (let's say it is an aeroplane), I can find it in the Webdings font (Unicode 00d2, or Ò). See screenshot 1: http://nabble.**documentfoundation.org/file/** n4039236/Character_Map.pnghttp://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Character_Map.png But when I use that character in Libre Office and set the font to Webdings, it shows a different character, specifically an in-box. See screenshot 2: http://nabble.**documentfoundation.org/file/**n4039236/Libre_Office_** characters.pnghttp://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Libre_Office_characters.png Note that not all characters do this. For example, the first 52 characters (A-Z and a-z) are correct. I would like to know how to solve this discrepancy, so that I can search for characters in Character Map (or an equivalent program) and then use them in Libre Office. (I have tried an alternative program, Specimen Font Viewer, and it shows the same thing as Character Map.) I am using Linux Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit, fully updated) with Libre Office 4.0.0.3 (installed directly from the Libre Office website). Thank you. My 12.04 shows a list of fonts at /opt/libreoffice4.0/share/**fonts/truetype/ They are mostly DejaVu and Liberation fonts but there are others listed as well. I made sure the fonts listed there were also listed in the /.fonts/ hidden folder. that way I had the same fonts for all my packages. I was recently looking at Mint, a derivative of Ubuntu, and I was appalled at the paucity of fonts. Liberation is ugly! You need to find a good set of True-Type fonts and install them. Then you can have, for example, Times-Roman. And most of the odd-ball ones that you might use once in your life-time. I copied the entire fonts directory from PCLOS and replaced the one in Mint. But I think you can get True-Type from Microsoft, free. Not sure how you do that--Google's your friend. --doug -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?
On 02/23/2013 06:22 PM, anne-ology wrote: Then how does one get these new ones into the programs for use? As you quoted me before, you weren't reading what I said: put the ffonts in the font directory of your distro. they should then be available for any program on the machine, including LO. That's just what I did on the Mint installation. AAMOF, I deleted all the crap fonts that were on the machine--Liberation and a whole batch of Asian fonts in languages I couldn't even recognize-- and just dumped in a whole directory of usable fonts--probably True-Type, supplied on another distro that wasn't so damned PC. --doug On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/21/2013 12:30 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 02/21/2013 12:01 PM, Paddy Landau wrote: I am wondering if Libre Office has a separate set of fonts from the operating system, or at least some of the fonts. I'll explain my problem. If I have a look at Character Map to find a character that I want (let's say it is an aeroplane), I can find it in the Webdings font (Unicode 00d2, or Ò). See screenshot 1: http://nabble.**documentfoundation.org/file/** n4039236/Character_Map.pnghttp://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Character_Map.png But when I use that character in Libre Office and set the font to Webdings, it shows a different character, specifically an in-box. See screenshot 2: http://nabble.**documentfoundation.org/file/**n4039236/Libre_Office_** characters.pnghttp://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Libre_Office_characters.png Note that not all characters do this. For example, the first 52 characters (A-Z and a-z) are correct. I would like to know how to solve this discrepancy, so that I can search for characters in Character Map (or an equivalent program) and then use them in Libre Office. (I have tried an alternative program, Specimen Font Viewer, and it shows the same thing as Character Map.) I am using Linux Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit, fully updated) with Libre Office 4.0.0.3 (installed directly from the Libre Office website). Thank you. My 12.04 shows a list of fonts at /opt/libreoffice4.0/share/**fonts/truetype/ They are mostly DejaVu and Liberation fonts but there are others listed as well. I made sure the fonts listed there were also listed in the /.fonts/ hidden folder. that way I had the same fonts for all my packages. I was recently looking at Mint, a derivative of Ubuntu, and I was appalled at the paucity of fonts. Liberation is ugly! You need to find a good set of True-Type fonts and install them. Then you can have, for example, Times-Roman. And most of the odd-ball ones that you might use once in your life-time. I copied the entire fonts directory from PCLOS and replaced the one in Mint. But I think you can get True-Type from Microsoft, free. Not sure how you do that--Google's your friend. --doug -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?
Thank you for responding; but I haven't the foggiest idea what you've said. the font directory of the distro ??? ... AAMOF ??? I would really enjoy getting rid of all those 'junk' fonts ... and finding then dropping in the good ones; but I haven't a clue as to how to so do. ok, it's probably some simple step to locate these then drop them into whatever folder ... but 'the more I learn of these glorified typewriters, the stupider I feel' ;-) ;-) ;-) On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/23/2013 06:22 PM, anne-ology wrote: Then how does one get these new ones into the programs for use? As you quoted me before, you weren't reading what I said: put the ffonts in the font directory of your distro. they should then be available for any program on the machine, including LO. That's just what I did on the Mint installation. AAMOF, I deleted all the crap fonts that were on the machine--Liberation and a whole batch of Asian fonts in languages I couldn't even recognize-- and just dumped in a whole directory of usable fonts--probably True-Type, supplied on another distro that wasn't so damned PC. --doug On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/21/2013 12:30 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 02/21/2013 12:01 PM, Paddy Landau wrote: I am wondering if Libre Office has a separate set of fonts from the operating system, or at least some of the fonts. I'll explain my problem. If I have a look at Character Map to find a character that I want (let's say it is an aeroplane), I can find it in the Webdings font (Unicode 00d2, or Ò). See screenshot 1: http://nabble.**documentfound**ation.org/file/**http://documentfoundation.org/file/** n4039236/Character_Map.pnghtt**p://nabble.documentfoundation.** org/file/n4039236/Character_**Map.pnghttp://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Character_Map.png But when I use that character in Libre Office and set the font to Webdings, it shows a different character, specifically an in-box. See screenshot 2: http://nabble.**documentfound**ation.org/file/**n4039236/** Libre_Office_**http://documentfoundation.org/file/**n4039236/Libre_Office_** characters.pnghttp://nabble.**documentfoundation.org/file/** n4039236/Libre_Office_**characters.pnghttp://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Libre_Office_characters.png Note that not all characters do this. For example, the first 52 characters (A-Z and a-z) are correct. I would like to know how to solve this discrepancy, so that I can search for characters in Character Map (or an equivalent program) and then use them in Libre Office. (I have tried an alternative program, Specimen Font Viewer, and it shows the same thing as Character Map.) I am using Linux Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit, fully updated) with Libre Office 4.0.0.3 (installed directly from the Libre Office website). Thank you. My 12.04 shows a list of fonts at /opt/libreoffice4.0/share/fonts/truetype/ They are mostly DejaVu and Liberation fonts but there are others listed as well. I made sure the fonts listed there were also listed in the /.fonts/ hidden folder. that way I had the same fonts for all my packages. I was recently looking at Mint, a derivative of Ubuntu, and I was appalled at the paucity of fonts. Liberation is ugly! You need to find a good set of True-Type fonts and install them. Then you can have, for example, Times-Roman. And most of the odd-ball ones that you might use once in your life-time. I copied the entire fonts directory from PCLOS and replaced the one in Mint. But I think you can get True-Type from Microsoft, free. Not sure how you do that--Google's your friend. --doug -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?
distro: the operating system on your computer (Windows, Linux, OS X, etc.) AAMOF: as far as my other fonts The latter is a guess but it seems logical. So, if you would tell us one more time, what is your operating system. That will tell us the location of your font folder or folders. --Dan On 02/23/2013 07:40 PM, anne-ology wrote: Thank you for responding; but I haven't the foggiest idea what you've said. the font directory of the distro ??? ... AAMOF ??? I would really enjoy getting rid of all those 'junk' fonts ... and finding then dropping in the good ones; but I haven't a clue as to how to so do. ok, it's probably some simple step to locate these then drop them into whatever folder ... but 'the more I learn of these glorified typewriters, the stupider I feel' ;-) ;-) ;-) On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/23/2013 06:22 PM, anne-ology wrote: Then how does one get these new ones into the programs for use? As you quoted me before, you weren't reading what I said: put the ffonts in the font directory of your distro. they should then be available for any program on the machine, including LO. That's just what I did on the Mint installation. AAMOF, I deleted all the crap fonts that were on the machine--Liberation and a whole batch of Asian fonts in languages I couldn't even recognize-- and just dumped in a whole directory of usable fonts--probably True-Type, supplied on another distro that wasn't so damned PC. --doug On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/21/2013 12:30 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 02/21/2013 12:01 PM, Paddy Landau wrote: I am wondering if Libre Office has a separate set of fonts from the operating system, or at least some of the fonts. I'll explain my problem. If I have a look at Character Map to find a character that I want (let's say it is an aeroplane), I can find it in the Webdings font (Unicode 00d2, or Ò). See screenshot 1: http://nabble.**documentfound**ation.org/file/**http://documentfoundation.org/file/** n4039236/Character_Map.pnghtt**p://nabble.documentfoundation.** org/file/n4039236/Character_**Map.pnghttp://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Character_Map.png But when I use that character in Libre Office and set the font to Webdings, it shows a different character, specifically an in-box. See screenshot 2: http://nabble.**documentfound**ation.org/file/**n4039236/** Libre_Office_**http://documentfoundation.org/file/**n4039236/Libre_Office_** characters.pnghttp://nabble.**documentfoundation.org/file/** n4039236/Libre_Office_**characters.pnghttp://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Libre_Office_characters.png Note that not all characters do this. For example, the first 52 characters (A-Z and a-z) are correct. I would like to know how to solve this discrepancy, so that I can search for characters in Character Map (or an equivalent program) and then use them in Libre Office. (I have tried an alternative program, Specimen Font Viewer, and it shows the same thing as Character Map.) I am using Linux Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit, fully updated) with Libre Office 4.0.0.3 (installed directly from the Libre Office website). Thank you. My 12.04 shows a list of fonts at /opt/libreoffice4.0/share/fonts/truetype/ They are mostly DejaVu and Liberation fonts but there are others listed as well. I made sure the fonts listed there were also listed in the /.fonts/ hidden folder. that way I had the same fonts for all my packages. I was recently looking at Mint, a derivative of Ubuntu, and I was appalled at the paucity of fonts. Liberation is ugly! You need to find a good set of True-Type fonts and install them. Then you can have, for example, Times-Roman. And most of the odd-ball ones that you might use once in your life-time. I copied the entire fonts directory from PCLOS and replaced the one in Mint. But I think you can get True-Type from Microsoft, free. Not sure how you do that--Google's your friend. --doug -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?
On 02/23/2013 07:40 PM, anne-ology wrote: Thank you for responding; but I haven't the foggiest idea what you've said. the font directory of the distro ??? ... AAMOF ??? I would really enjoy getting rid of all those 'junk' fonts ... and finding then dropping in the good ones; but I haven't a clue as to how to so do. ok, it's probably some simple step to locate these then drop them into whatever folder ... but 'the more I learn of these glorified typewriters, the stupider I feel' ;-) ;-) ;-) AAMOF=as a matter of fact You will find a bunch of directories labelled fonts. You want one that has a list of fonts showing as subdirectories. In my distro (pclos) they're in /usr/share: [doug@linux1 fonts]$ ls -la total 184 drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Feb 19 00:22 ./ drwxr-xr-x 266 root root 12288 Feb 22 12:04 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 98304 Jun 8 2011 100dpi/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 75dpi/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 cyrillic/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 22 2011 default/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 encodings/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 12:07 java/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20480 Jun 8 2011 misc/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 OTF/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 Speedo/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 19 00:22 truetype/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 20 2012 ttf/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 TTF/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 Type1/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 12 2011 ubuntu/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 16 2010 webcore/ Notice the names: three sets of true-types, a type 1, even cyrillic, if you happen to use Russian! All of the Latin letters can be modified with accent marks, etc. if you make a compose key. You'll also have some signs, like EUR, ¢, ?, ½, ¼, ß (German ess-tset) and whatever. I thought I saw, somewhere in this thread, someone who told where to get the Microsoft fonts--these are True-Tupe, or ttf, and have the kind of fonts you want so as to look professional in whatever you write. BTW, do _not_ remove the old font directory without having one at hand to replace it with, because if you do, there will be absolutely _nothing_ readable in any program! As I have said, all the programs on the system use the fonts in that font directory. There might be one or two exceptions, but more likely not. You don't have to remove the old font directory--you can just drop the new fonts in with the old, and you'll just have a bigger list to choose from. I dumped it, because I thought the existing ones in Mint were basically useless. If you have a search routine in your email, search for ms, I think that's the abbreviation the previous poster used, when telling how to get Microsoft fonts. They're free, you don't have to buy them. Hope that helps. --doug On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net mailto:dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/23/2013 06:22 PM, anne-ology wrote: Then how does one get these new ones into the programs for use? As you quoted me before, you weren't reading what I said: put the ffonts in the font directory of your distro. they should then be available for any program on the machine, including LO. That's just what I did on the Mint installation. AAMOF, I deleted all the crap fonts that were on the machine--Liberation and a whole batch of Asian fonts in languages I couldn't even recognize-- and just dumped in a whole directory of usable fonts--probably True-Type, supplied on another distro that wasn't so damned PC. --doug On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net mailto:dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/21/2013 12:30 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 02/21/2013 12:01 PM, Paddy Landau wrote: I am wondering if Libre Office has a separate set of fonts from the operating system, or at least some of the fonts. I'll explain my problem. If I have a look at Character Map to find a character that I want (let's say it is an aeroplane), I can find it in the Webdings font (Unicode 00d2, or Ò). See screenshot 1: http://nabble.**documentfoundation.org/file/** http://documentfoundation.org/file/** n4039236/Character_Map.pnghttp://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Character_Map.png But when I use that character in Libre Office and set the font to Webdings, it shows a different character, specifically an in-box. See
Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?
WIN7 On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: distro: the operating system on your computer (Windows, Linux, OS X, etc.) AAMOF: as far as my other fonts The latter is a guess but it seems logical. So, if you would tell us one more time, what is your operating system. That will tell us the location of your font folder or folders. --Dan On 02/23/2013 07:40 PM, anne-ology wrote: Thank you for responding; but I haven't the foggiest idea what you've said. the font directory of the distro ??? ... AAMOF ??? I would really enjoy getting rid of all those 'junk' fonts ... and finding then dropping in the good ones; but I haven't a clue as to how to so do. ok, it's probably some simple step to locate these then drop them into whatever folder ... but 'the more I learn of these glorified typewriters, the stupider I feel' ;-) ;-) ;-) On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/23/2013 06:22 PM, anne-ology wrote: Then how does one get these new ones into the programs for use? As you quoted me before, you weren't reading what I said: put the ffonts in the font directory of your distro. they should then be available for any program on the machine, including LO. That's just what I did on the Mint installation. AAMOF, I deleted all the crap fonts that were on the machine--Liberation and a whole batch of Asian fonts in languages I couldn't even recognize-- and just dumped in a whole directory of usable fonts--probably True-Type, supplied on another distro that wasn't so damned PC. --doug On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/21/2013 12:30 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 02/21/2013 12:01 PM, Paddy Landau wrote: I am wondering if Libre Office has a separate set of fonts from the operating system, or at least some of the fonts. I'll explain my problem. If I have a look at Character Map to find a character that I want (let's say it is an aeroplane), I can find it in the Webdings font (Unicode 00d2, or Ò). See screenshot 1: http://nabble.documentfound**ation.org/file/http://ation.org/file/** http://documentfoundation.**org/file/**http://documentfoundation.org/file/** n4039236/Character_Map.png**htt**p://nabble.**documentfoundation.** org/file/n4039236/Character_Map.pnghttp://nabble.** documentfoundation.org/file/**n4039236/Character_Map.pnghttp://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Character_Map.png But when I use that character in Libre Office and set the font to Webdings, it shows a different character, specifically an in-box. See screenshot 2: http://nabble.documentfound**ation.org/file/n4039236/**http://ation.org/file/**n4039236/** Libre_Office_**http://**documentfoundation.org/file/ n4039236/Libre_Office_**http://documentfoundation.org/file/**n4039236/Libre_Office_** characters.pnghttp://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/http://documentfoundation.org/file/** n4039236/Libre_Office_characters.pnghttp://nabble.** documentfoundation.org/file/**n4039236/Libre_Office_**characters.pnghttp://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Libre_Office_characters.png Note that not all characters do this. For example, the first 52 characters (A-Z and a-z) are correct. I would like to know how to solve this discrepancy, so that I can search for characters in Character Map (or an equivalent program) and then use them in Libre Office. (I have tried an alternative program, Specimen Font Viewer, and it shows the same thing as Character Map.) I am using Linux Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit, fully updated) with Libre Office 4.0.0.3 (installed directly from the Libre Office website). Thank you. My 12.04 shows a list of fonts at /opt/libreoffice4.0/share/**fonts/truetype/ They are mostly DejaVu and Liberation fonts but there are others listed as well. I made sure the fonts listed there were also listed in the /.fonts/ hidden folder. that way I had the same fonts for all my packages. I was recently looking at Mint, a derivative of Ubuntu, and I was appalled at the paucity of fonts. Liberation is ugly! You need to find a good set of True-Type fonts and install them. Then you can have, for example, Times-Roman. And most of the odd-ball ones that you might use once in your life-time. I copied the entire fonts directory from PCLOS and replaced the one in Mint. But I think you can get True-Type from Microsoft, free. Not sure how you do that--Google's your friend. --doug -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive:
Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?
Thanks!!! On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/23/2013 07:40 PM, anne-ology wrote: Thank you for responding; but I haven't the foggiest idea what you've said. the font directory of the distro ??? ... AAMOF ??? I would really enjoy getting rid of all those 'junk' fonts ... and finding then dropping in the good ones; but I haven't a clue as to how to so do. ok, it's probably some simple step to locate these then drop them into whatever folder ... but 'the more I learn of these glorified typewriters, the stupider I feel' ;-) ;-) ;-) AAMOF=as a matter of fact You will find a bunch of directories labelled fonts. You want one that has a list of fonts showing as subdirectories. In my distro (pclos) they're in /usr/share: [doug@linux1 fonts]$ ls -la total 184 drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Feb 19 00:22 ./ drwxr-xr-x 266 root root 12288 Feb 22 12:04 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 98304 Jun 8 2011 100dpi/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 75dpi/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 cyrillic/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 22 2011 default/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 encodings/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 12:07 java/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20480 Jun 8 2011 misc/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 OTF/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 Speedo/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 19 00:22 truetype/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 20 2012 ttf/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 TTF/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 Type1/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 12 2011 ubuntu/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 16 2010 webcore/ Notice the names: three sets of true-types, a type 1, even cyrillic, if you happen to use Russian! All of the Latin letters can be modified with accent marks, etc. if you make a compose key. You'll also have some signs, like €, ¢, ₤, ½, ¼, ß (German ess-tset) and whatever. I thought I saw, somewhere in this thread, someone who told where to get the Microsoft fonts--these are True-Tupe, or ttf, and have the kind of fonts you want so as to look professional in whatever you write. BTW, do _not_ remove the old font directory without having one at hand to replace it with, because if you do, there will be absolutely _nothing_ readable in any program! As I have said, all the programs on the system use the fonts in that font directory. There might be one or two exceptions, but more likely not. You don't have to remove the old font directory--you can just drop the new fonts in with the old, and you'll just have a bigger list to choose from. I dumped it, because I thought the existing ones in Mint were basically useless. If you have a search routine in your email, search for ms, I think that's the abbreviation the previous poster used, when telling how to get Microsoft fonts. They're free, you don't have to buy them. Hope that helps. --doug On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/23/2013 06:22 PM, anne-ology wrote: Then how does one get these new ones into the programs for use? As you quoted me before, you weren't reading what I said: put the ffonts in the font directory of your distro. they should then be available for any program on the machine, including LO. That's just what I did on the Mint installation. AAMOF, I deleted all the crap fonts that were on the machine--Liberation and a whole batch of Asian fonts in languages I couldn't even recognize-- and just dumped in a whole directory of usable fonts--probably True-Type, supplied on another distro that wasn't so damned PC. --doug On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/21/2013 12:30 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 02/21/2013 12:01 PM, Paddy Landau wrote: I am wondering if Libre Office has a separate set of fonts from the operating system, or at least some of the fonts. I'll explain my problem. If I have a look at Character Map to find a character that I want (let's say it is an aeroplane), I can find it in the Webdings font (Unicode 00d2, or Ò). See screenshot 1: http://nabble.**documentfoundation.org/file/** n4039236/Character_Map.png http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Character_Map.png But when I use that character in Libre Office and set the font to Webdings, it shows a different character, specifically an in-box. See screenshot 2: http://nabble.** documentfoundation.org/file/**n4039236/Libre_Office_** characters.png http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Libre_Office_characters.png Note that not all characters do this. For example, the first 52 characters (A-Z and a-z) are correct. I would like to know how to solve this discrepancy, so that I can search for characters in
Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?
For the Windows users, and the Linux users, you really should use the font install procedures. For Windows, there should be a font listing in its Control Panel and a way to install fonts there. For Ubuntu users, all you have to do in click on the font and it should open the font installation window with the install button. That way you can see the font before you install it. I like that better than dumping the font into the hidden .fonts folder. This is mostly the fonts you install after the fact and not ones installed by the OS. If you are never going to use any non-English language, then do this. . . Open LibreOffice and scroll down the list of fonts in the font drop-box in the formatting toolbar. Look at the fonts that have a name on the left and glyphs on the right. This will show for dinbats and icon based fonts. ALSO it will show you glyphs for the non-English/non-Latin style of fonts. Think Arabic or an Asian language. At that point, write down all of the font names that have these fonts you do not want. Then go to a package that has a font viewer and search for the fonts, if the is no file name that matches. I have a bunch of fonts like that. To be honest, there are other places that hold the fonts for Ubuntu, so you will have to search for then. BE CAREFUL not to remove any folders or delete them permanently since you might have removed a needed for for one of your packages. My install of Ubuntu has many Middle Eastern and Asian fonts installed by default, even though I use English for my language. I may remove most of them someday, but it will be a slow process so I do not make any mistakes. If you use Ubuntu, use the Software Center and look at the font packages installed. Then remove those that are not part of your language, like India or Arabic for English. On 02/23/2013 08:23 PM, anne-ology wrote: Thanks!!! On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/23/2013 07:40 PM, anne-ology wrote: Thank you for responding; but I haven't the foggiest idea what you've said. the font directory of the distro ??? ... AAMOF ??? I would really enjoy getting rid of all those 'junk' fonts ... and finding then dropping in the good ones; but I haven't a clue as to how to so do. ok, it's probably some simple step to locate these then drop them into whatever folder ... but 'the more I learn of these glorified typewriters, the stupider I feel' ;-) ;-) ;-) AAMOF=as a matter of fact You will find a bunch of directories labelled fonts. You want one that has a list of fonts showing as subdirectories. In my distro (pclos) they're in /usr/share: [doug@linux1 fonts]$ ls -la total 184 drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Feb 19 00:22 ./ drwxr-xr-x 266 root root 12288 Feb 22 12:04 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 98304 Jun 8 2011 100dpi/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 75dpi/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 cyrillic/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 22 2011 default/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 encodings/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 12:07 java/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20480 Jun 8 2011 misc/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 OTF/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 Speedo/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 19 00:22 truetype/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 20 2012 ttf/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 TTF/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 Type1/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 12 2011 ubuntu/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 16 2010 webcore/ Notice the names: three sets of true-types, a type 1, even cyrillic, if you happen to use Russian! All of the Latin letters can be modified with accent marks, etc. if you make a compose key. You'll also have some signs, like €, ¢, ₤, ½, ¼, ß (German ess-tset) and whatever. I thought I saw, somewhere in this thread, someone who told where to get the Microsoft fonts--these are True-Tupe, or ttf, and have the kind of fonts you want so as to look professional in whatever you write. BTW, do _not_ remove the old font directory without having one at hand to replace it with, because if you do, there will be absolutely _nothing_ readable in any program! As I have said, all the programs on the system use the fonts in that font directory. There might be one or two exceptions, but more likely not. You don't have to remove the old font directory--you can just drop the new fonts in with the old, and you'll just have a bigger list to choose from. I dumped it, because I thought the existing ones in Mint were basically useless. If you have a search routine in your email, search for ms, I think that's the abbreviation the previous poster used, when telling how to get Microsoft fonts. They're free, you don't have to buy them. Hope that helps. --doug On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net
Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?
Hi Paddy Webdings is a M$ font, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webdings and is not Unicode. If you use Unicode characters, e.g. U+2708 for an aeroplane (✈) it should render consistently, substituting a character from a font that has it if the current font does not (if you have a suitable font installed). On 21/02/13 17:01, Paddy Landau wrote: I am wondering if Libre Office has a separate set of fonts from the operating system, or at least some of the fonts. I'll explain my problem. If I have a look at Character Map to find a character that I want (let's say it is an aeroplane), I can find it in the Webdings font (Unicode 00d2, or Ò). See screenshot 1: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Character_Map.png But when I use that character in Libre Office and set the font to Webdings, it shows a different character, specifically an in-box. See screenshot 2: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Libre_Office_characters.png Note that not all characters do this. For example, the first 52 characters (A-Z and a-z) are correct. I would like to know how to solve this discrepancy, so that I can search for characters in Character Map (or an equivalent program) and then use them in Libre Office. (I have tried an alternative program, Specimen Font Viewer, and it shows the same thing as Character Map.) I am using Linux Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit, fully updated) with Libre Office 4.0.0.3 (installed directly from the Libre Office website). Thank you. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Does-Libre-Office-have-its-own-distinct-set-of-fonts-tp4039236.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?
On 02/21/2013 12:01 PM, Paddy Landau wrote: I am wondering if Libre Office has a separate set of fonts from the operating system, or at least some of the fonts. I'll explain my problem. If I have a look at Character Map to find a character that I want (let's say it is an aeroplane), I can find it in the Webdings font (Unicode 00d2, or Ò). See screenshot 1: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Character_Map.png But when I use that character in Libre Office and set the font to Webdings, it shows a different character, specifically an in-box. See screenshot 2: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Libre_Office_characters.png Note that not all characters do this. For example, the first 52 characters (A-Z and a-z) are correct. I would like to know how to solve this discrepancy, so that I can search for characters in Character Map (or an equivalent program) and then use them in Libre Office. (I have tried an alternative program, Specimen Font Viewer, and it shows the same thing as Character Map.) I am using Linux Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit, fully updated) with Libre Office 4.0.0.3 (installed directly from the Libre Office website). Thank you. My 12.04 shows a list of fonts at /opt/libreoffice4.0/share/fonts/truetype/ They are mostly DejaVu and Liberation fonts but there are others listed as well. I made sure the fonts listed there were also listed in the /.fonts/ hidden folder. that way I had the same fonts for all my packages. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?
On 02/21/2013 12:30 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 02/21/2013 12:01 PM, Paddy Landau wrote: I am wondering if Libre Office has a separate set of fonts from the operating system, or at least some of the fonts. I'll explain my problem. If I have a look at Character Map to find a character that I want (let's say it is an aeroplane), I can find it in the Webdings font (Unicode 00d2, or Ò). See screenshot 1: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Character_Map.png But when I use that character in Libre Office and set the font to Webdings, it shows a different character, specifically an in-box. See screenshot 2: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Libre_Office_characters.png Note that not all characters do this. For example, the first 52 characters (A-Z and a-z) are correct. I would like to know how to solve this discrepancy, so that I can search for characters in Character Map (or an equivalent program) and then use them in Libre Office. (I have tried an alternative program, Specimen Font Viewer, and it shows the same thing as Character Map.) I am using Linux Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit, fully updated) with Libre Office 4.0.0.3 (installed directly from the Libre Office website). Thank you. My 12.04 shows a list of fonts at /opt/libreoffice4.0/share/fonts/truetype/ They are mostly DejaVu and Liberation fonts but there are others listed as well. I made sure the fonts listed there were also listed in the /.fonts/ hidden folder. that way I had the same fonts for all my packages. I was recently looking at Mint, a derivative of Ubuntu, and I was appalled at the paucity of fonts. Liberation is ugly! You need to find a good set of True-Type fonts and install them. Then you can have, for example, Times-Roman. And most of the odd-ball ones that you might use once in your life-time. I copied the entire fonts directory from PCLOS and replaced the one in Mint. But I think you can get True-Type from Microsoft, free. Not sure how you do that--Google's your friend. --doug -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
