On 02/14/2013 05:33 AM, William Drago wrote:
All,
I have a bunch of fonts on my Windows system that have weird names
like cmbx6 Regular, cmdunh10 Regular, cmsltt10 Regular... Did these
come with LibreOffice and if so what are they for? Also, why such
cryptic names?
Thanks,
Bill
They are "system fonts", or so I have been told. Some packages and
utilities withinthe Windows "system" may be using them for displaying
text. The Command Line could use them. Some of the "window"text menu
and titles displayed may use them.
If these fonts were not installed by you, but are shown in you font
list, DO NOT REMOVE them. If they are used by Windows or its utilities,
you may have a big problem on your hands. I accidentally removed a font
that I thought I did not need from an XP system. I did not know that
that font name [several fonts styles] was used by Windows. I really had
some weird looking menu texts till I fixed the problem.
There are a lot of fonts that are installed by Windows, or Linux, that
is used "only" by the system and was not intended to be used as a font
in a "normal" document created by Writer or other package. Even though
all of these "extra" fonts are listed in the font menus, I just avoid
them and not delete/uninstall them. You may never know what fonts are
being used by the OS or a package. I do know that some packages install
specific fonts on your Windows [and Linux] system to be used as their
"default" font[s] in their packages in one way or another. LibreOffice
has a set of fonts. When I type in LibreOffice in my Linux "package
manager" I get "fonts-opensymbol 2:102.2+LibO". . . listed in the
search for LibreOffice.
For me, there are many, many fonts that are listed in my font list in
Writer, to choose from. Many of them were placed there by Ubuntu [or
Windows] when it was installed or one of the packages I installed
afterwards. These fonts are not ones I would use in my documents, but I
accept that they are there and I should not delete them, no matter how
weird they look or are names. I have over 400 fonts and their styles
listed in my Writer font "drop down" option. Many are there as "core"
fonts I use for various projects, and may were placed there when I
installed Ubuntu 12.04, MATE desktop environment, and all of the various
packages I installed and use. Even though it makes is a "pain" to go
through all of these "extra" fonts I may never use in a document or
project, I will not "risk" deleting them. I learned this "the hard way".
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