Re: [PLUG] Fonts not visible to upgraded LibreOffice-5.4.0

2017-08-05 Thread King Beowulf
On 08/05/2017 08:40 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 5 Aug 2017, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> Even if your Type 1 fonts have no optional glyphs I would still go with >> OTF. It is the way of the future. > >Thanks, John. That's good enough for me. > >Years ago I learned a lot about

Re: [PLUG] 16.04.3 VGA Graphic display stopped working

2017-08-05 Thread Alan
On Fri, 2017-08-04 at 10:04 -0700, Bill Morita wrote: > 16.04.3 VGA Graphic display stopped working. > Even a No-Machine connection does not seem to work. > > Ctrl-Alt-F1 does get me a simple text terminal. > > Anybody else seen this ? > > It has happened on both my systems. > Currently

[PLUG] Ethernet connection dropping

2017-08-05 Thread Dick Steffens
Two times over the last three days my machine has dropped its Ethernet connection. It doesn't say it's dropped, but I can't see beyond the machine, not even other machines in the house. Using the widget on the top bar on the Ubuntu MATE 16.04 screen I manually drop and then reconnect, and all

Re: [PLUG] Fonts not visible to upgraded LibreOffice-5.4.0

2017-08-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, King Beowulf wrote: > Altough Rich has resolved this with moving to Calligra (part of KDE), Reverted. > TrueType and Opentype, especially, are the new "hotness", ... Of these two, might there be a reason to select one over the other? In my case the use is on a single

Re: [PLUG] Fonts not visible to upgraded LibreOffice-5.4.0

2017-08-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 07:21:37 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, King Beowulf wrote: > >> Altough Rich has resolved this with moving to Calligra (part of KDE), > > Reverted. This discussion prompted me to search for alternate office suites for Linux,

Re: [PLUG] Fonts not visible to upgraded LibreOffice-5.4.0

2017-08-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 5 Aug 2017, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Even if your Type 1 fonts have no optional glyphs I would still go with > OTF. It is the way of the future. Thanks, John. That's good enough for me. Years ago I learned a lot about typography, fonts, and document layouts to better understand