On 07/19/2011 11:36 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, NoOp wrote: > >> It would be helpful if you let us know which distro & version of that >> distro you are using. It's also helpful if you can tell us what the font >> type is; .ttf, .otf > > Sure. Slackware-13.1/32-bit. > > [rshepard@salmo ~]$ ls /usr/share/fonts/ > 100dpi/ ISO8859-2/ PEX/ TrueType/ afms/ encodings/ local/ > 75dpi/ ISO8859-9/ Speedo/ Type1/ atmfonts/ fonts.cache-1 misc/ > CID/ OTF/ TTF/ URW/ culmus/ fonts.cache-2 util/ > >> You might try updating your font cache. On Ubuntu (and Fedora & others) >> it is: > > Just did this; no change. > >> Also test to see if the font(s) LO that isn't being picked up gets picked >> up from a ~/.fonts folder instead. Copy a particular font that you can >> easily recognize to there & then restart LO and see if the font appears. > > I have no .fonts directory under ~/.
You need to create it. LO will pick up a font in ~/.fonts, so it's easy to use that for testing, or for having a personalized, non-system wide font if you need it. > >> etc. This has caught me off guard in the past, so if I can't find American >> Typwriter, I open the font in either font viewer or fontforge to find out >> what the actual font name is. Then check & yep, 'ITC American Typewriter' >> is actually there. > > I installed a bunch of fonts from a Bitstream cdrom I bought over a decade > ago, and all these fonts have been here for at least that long. My company > logotype is Baker Signet and that's not available in LO; the standard body > text is Bitstream Amerigo, and that is also not seen. Bitstream Charter is > seen, but none of the others. For example, LO shows URW Palladio Latin > (Italic), but not URW Palladio Roman (upright). Shrug. I don't recall having > this issue when I switched to OO.o when WordPerfect/Linux stopped working > when libc5 became libc6 and Novell dropped the application. The question is: what type of fonts are they? My reason for asking is that LO has some issues with opentype fonts: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31821 amongst others: <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=LibreOffice&content=font> ... -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] 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
