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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.png<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.****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.png<http://nabble.****documentfoundation.org/file/****<http://documentfoundation.org/file/**>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> n4039236/Libre_Office_****characters.png<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 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
>>>>>
>>>>
>
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