Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct setof fonts?
When I install fonts to my Win7 computer, I just copy the font files to the C:\windows\fonts folder using Windows Explorer. I've never had a problem doing it this way. Virgil -Original Message- From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 12:48 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct setof fonts? 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
Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct setof fonts?
I was always taught to use the install procedure. It use to be that you can have fonts in that folder, but not being used by you system. I am glad that that as been removed. It is alway good to looks at the fonts with a font viewer just before you install them, so you make sure they are the ones you want. I have accidentally installed a bunch of fonts that were not useful to me, when I was dealing with XP and Vista systems on a regular basis. Now I use Ubuntu on my desktop first and Win XP and Win7 on laptops, as needed. On 02/25/2013 01:21 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: When I install fonts to my Win7 computer, I just copy the font files to the C:\windows\fonts folder using Windows Explorer. I've never had a problem doing it this way. Virgil -Original Message- From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 12:48 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct setof fonts? 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
