I have tried your suggestion several times, with possible changes, and the font always shows in italics at the head of editor screen.
To clarify, the correct font, named Century PS Pro in this incarnation, is available on the font options list when editing a document. BUT the incoming text documents were created on previous versions of Libre Office, or may have been imported from Open Office, Textmaker or Word Perfect, and show the name of the font as known to those programmes, ie "Century Schoolbook" so the font name shows in italics. So, I went to the Replacement table in Libre Office and set "font Century Schoolbook, replace with Century PS Pro" (which showed up as a choice on the drop down menu) and ticked the "always" box and "apply replacement table" and OK. These settings are retained between restarts of Libre Office.. But when I load a document for editing, Century Schoolbook still shows up in italics as the active font. If I then start to edit and click "Insert | Special Character" I get a very limited number of Latin special characters and a group of Sinhala glyphs. It is quite possible to change the Latin subset of characters but Libre Office always reverts to Sinhala when you return to editing the document. By experiment, if the font is recognized by LO then the correct special character substitution table is presented. The actual font in use seems to be correct in that the characters look "right" and all the metrics (height, spacing, leading, etc) work out as expected. I could possibly provide a soft link to the correct name but I'm afraid of blowing up something else that I haven't thought about (yet). Any ideas? Thanks in advance. John ==================================================== On Sun, 2020-10-11 at 12:29 +1300, Steve Edmonds wrote: > Hi, > > I also had a similar issue because the name of the font changed with > an > upgrade. I.e "Century Schoolbook" to "Century Schoolbook L", > although in > my case it wasn't Century Schoolbook. > > The first step will be to get the font you need to show in the > fonts > list in LibreOffice. A solution here could be to use the system > font > installer tool, go to /usr/share/fonts/century-schoolbook/ directory > and > try to install the fonts. The installer will either install the > fonts > where the system wants them or tell you they are already installed. > > Restart LO and see if the font is in the font list. > > A backup for next time: I have a fonts directory in my home folder, > I > copy fonts here as a backup when they are installed and it means I > cam > always get back to fonts used in old documents even after an OS > upgrade, > assuming you back up this fonts directory. > > Steve > > > On 11/10/2020 10:07, Girvin Herr wrote: > > John, > > > > I am using Slackware Linux 14.2 (k4.4.227). > > > > Do you have any font substitutions in LO's Options > LibreOffice > > > > > Fonts > Replacement table? > > > > Note that "/usr/share/fonts/century-schoolbook/" is not a > > standard > > Xorg font directory. Xorg probably does not have this directory in > > its > > list of font directories to search. That may be why LO cannot find > > it. > > I found it in "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" as ncen*.pcf.gz. It is > > listed > > in the fonts.dir plain text file in that directory. If the font > > path > > is not in the X font directory search list, then X cannot supply > > it to > > LO. I suggest to place it in the correct directory or add the > > century-schoolbook directory to X's font directory list. To do > > that, > > if you have an xorg.conf file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf YMMV), look for > > the > > "FontPath" entries and add your path to it. > > > > Another option is to run the font database manager, but I use that > > so > > little, I have forgotten how to do it. > > > > I just checked and discovered my LibreOffice 6.2.8.2 does not > > have > > Century Schoolbook listed either. However, my Apache OpenOffice > > 4.1.6 > > does have a "Century Schoolbook L" font listed. This implies that > > even > > if the font is in the correct directory, as in my case, LO is > > omitting > > it for some reason. Are you sure there is no entry in your font > > replacement table? > > So, another option might be to install AOO and see if that works > > better for you. > > > > HTH. > > > > Girvin Herr > > > > > > On 10/10/20 12:34 PM, John wrote: > > > I have a several chapters of a book that were originally > > > composed > > > using an earlier version of LibreOffice using what I believe was > > > the > > > "Century Schoolbook" font. Now when I call them in for editing, > > > the > > > font is shown in italics as "Times New Roman" with the note "The > > > current font is not available and will be substituted". > > > > > > This is giving me a serious problem since the book contains many > > > drawings and framed images and these get re-flowed due to the > > > difference in the absolute height of the font being substituted. > > > In > > > some cases the drawings are pages away from their correct > > > location and > > > have to be towed back, which is time consuming and creates some > > > other > > > problems too. > > > > > > I checked and the Century Schoolbook font is installed where > > > expected; > > > in the /usr/share/fonts/century-schoolbook/ directory. > > > > > > I have not been able to figure out which font is being used for > > > the > > > substitution, nor why the correct font cannot be found. > > > > > > Can anyone help? > > > > > > Details: > > > Linux Fedora 32 - workstation > > > LO 6.1.3.2 > > > > > > I am on a back level of Libre Office because we have hundreds of > > > line > > > drawings in use in the .eps format that is no longer supported > > > by LO > > > on newer releases. > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any help! > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
