On 03/11/10 11:50, bill purvis wrote: > I'm baffled by the list of fonts displayed in Writer. Most of them > look to be alien to someone who only uses English and I'd like to > remove them from the list. I did a bit of searching through the > /opt/openoffice.org/... tree and located .../font/truetype but the
They are probably in one of the system font folders. Check out what came with your window manager and X server. > only things in there were DejaVu... and Liberation... (and something > called opens___.ttf??). Since there are a number of other fonts > in the list that do display useful stuff, like dingbats and Purisa, > where do they come from? > > I'd also like to add a font to the list but it's in opentype font format > (.oft) (according to the Linux file command). I found the FAQ on how to > add fonts (using spadmin) but it doesn't recognise that format. Anyone > know a way to convert it to something usable? > > Bill You don't need to use spadmin. On my FreeBSD box (and I'm sure this is common to other *Nix variants) all I needed to do was create a .fonts directory in my home directory (e.g. /home/user1/.fonts/) and not only does OOo read from it, but so does just about every other app I've opened. YMMV, HTH. FWIW, I needed this so I could add my collection of 10k fonts and OOo (nor any other app) chokes on it. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content copyright under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org Please do not CC me. If I'm posting to a list it is because I am subscribed.
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