Thank you!
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:48 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 < >> [email protected]> 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 <[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.****documentfound**ation.org/file/****<http://ation.org/file/**> >>>>>>>>>> <http://documentfoundation.**org/file/**<http://documentfoundation.org/file/**> >>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>> n4039236/Character_Map.png< >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> http://nabble.**documentfounda**tion.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.** >>>>>>>>>> documentfoundation.org/file/******n4039236/Libre_Office_**<http://documentfoundation.org/file/****n4039236/Libre_Office_**> >>>>>>>>>> <htt**p://documentfoundation.org/**file/**n4039236/Libre_Office_* >>>>>>>>>> ***<http://documentfoundation.org/file/**n4039236/Libre_Office_**> >>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>> characters.png< >>>>>>>>>> http://nabble.**documentfounda**tion.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 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- 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
