Thanks!!!
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Doug <[email protected]> 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 2 root root 4096 Aug 20 2012 ttf/ > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 TTF/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2011 Type1/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 12 2011 ubuntu/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 16 2010 webcore/ > > Notice the names: three sets of true-types, a type 1, even > cyrillic, if you happen to use Russian! All of the Latin letters > can be modified with accent marks, etc. if you make a > compose key. You'll also have some signs, like €, ¢, ₤, > ½, ¼, ß (German ess-tset) and whatever. > > I thought I saw, somewhere in this thread, someone who > told where to get the Microsoft fonts--these are True-Tupe, > or ttf, and have the kind of fonts you want so as to look > professional in whatever you write. BTW, do _not_ > remove the old font directory without having one at > hand to replace it with, because if you do, there will be > absolutely _nothing_ readable in any program! As I > have said, all the programs on the system use the > fonts in that font directory. There might be one or two > exceptions, but more likely not. You don't have to > remove the old font directory--you can just drop the > new fonts in with the old, and you'll just have a bigger > list to choose from. I dumped it, because I thought the > existing ones in Mint were basically useless. > If you have a search routine in your email, search for ms, > I think that's the abbreviation the previous poster used, > when telling how to get Microsoft fonts. They're free, you > don't have to buy them. > > Hope that helps. --doug > > > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Doug <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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.**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.** >>>>>> 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 >>>> >>>> -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
