John Jordan wrote:
On 10 Apr 2006, at 11:45, Nicu Buculei wrote:
Andy Pepperdine wrote:
AIUI OOo shows only those fonts that are available for both display and
printing. The X11 font directories define those for display, the printing
fonts are elsewhere. I had a similar problem a couple of years ago. But an
update to the system (Suse) seemed to automatically fix it so I did not
pursue the matter to discover exactly where they all were and how to
configure cups and printers to get the fonts.
On a current desktop the easiest way for a user to install fonts and
make them available for both display and print is to create a directory
named ".fonts" in his home directory and copy there the font files, no
need to touch X11 configuration at all.
The copy of OOo which I have installed on my computer does not need
spadmin or something else to access those fonts.
But does it work with OpenType fonts?
I have followed both instructions -- installed all in /home/jjj/.fonts, which
made no difference, and in /usr/share/fonts/type1/opentype, which also
made no difference. I also navigated to each of those folders with the
command line and give it the command mkfontdir, again with no success.
After every attempt I restarted the computer.
The OpenType fonts are all visible and work perfectly in Scribus, both for
display and printing. If I go to a file browser (Konqueror, Krusader, Xfe,
Nautilus) and type "fonts:///" in the location bar the file manager displays
all the fonts, complete with a correct display of what they look like. Hence,
I am sure they are properly installed in the system.
Someone on an OO.o forum told me that this is a bug with OpenType fonts
in OO.o if the OpenType is a Type 1 in an OpenType wrapper (which most
of these are). However, I also have some that are TrueType in OpenType
wrappers and OO.o does not see those either.
I can't believe we can't use OpenType fonts in OO.o. This is pretty much a
showstopper. Adobe doesn't even sell Type 1 any more, and the other
foundries are soon to follow suit, if they haven't already. I also have OO.o
on my Windows 2000 desktop and they work fine there. It's just on my
Linux laptop where I can't use them. Of course, that's where I desperately
need them.
I found that OpenType fonts do not work in OOo. But there is a way
around this. This link provides a method to use fontforge to convert
the *otf files to truetype files. This link provides a script to
convert all the *.otf files in a directory. This is for Linux.
http://www.se.eecs.uni-kassel.de/~thm/OpenOffice.org/bugs.html
Then add them using spadmin.
On my FC4 install it is in.
/usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0/program/spadmin
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Robin Laing
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