Hi :) I think Win7 and Xp are so different from each other that each would qualify as a separate distro. They are a bit like 2 distros from different families. It's not even as close as Mint or Ubuntu to Debian.
Errr, the answer was Win7 but i think that was given later in this thread. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Dan Lewis <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Sunday, 24 February 2013, 0:45 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set >of fonts? > > 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 <[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.**documentfound**ation.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> >>>>>>> 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/** >>>>>>> Libre_Office_**<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 > >-- >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 > > > > -- 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
