On 11/09/2007 08:58 AM, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Linda L. Hull. wrote: > >> I have been using Open Office for a while now, but >> I have never figured out how to get English fonts >> into the box at the top of the page (or even into >> the other list that I get with right click)? >> >> I don't really have a lot of use for ae_Sharjah, >> Baekmuk Gulim, or AR PL SanHeiSun Uni. >> >> It seems with each upgrade I get more fonts in >> other languages and fewer in English. >> >> I would like things like Aral Bold, Times New Roman >> and Schoolbook. >> >> How do I get these? >> >> I'm running Ubuntu Feisty, and prefer command line. >> >> I am an adult with learning disabilities, and need >> step by step instructions, not man pages. >> >> Linda > Hi Linda, > The fonts you have don't depend on Openoffice but rather on the operating > system you use (Ubuntu Feisty in your case). To get the fonts you want, you > need to install the msttcorefonts package which is in the Ubuntu multivers > repo. From the command line type > sudo aptitude install msttcorefonts > Close your Openoffice and restart it. You should see your new fonts among > those listed by Openoffice. Openoffice has a font-installer wizard but I > don't think it supplies the fonts you name. The msttcorefonts package gives > you these fonts: > Andale Mono > Arial Black > Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) > Comic Sans MS (Bold) > Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) > Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) > Impact > Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) > Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) > Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) > Webdings > Hope this helps. > Jonathan
And to add to Jonathan's excellent advise, remove the excessive fonts that you don't want (ae_Sharjah etc). There are several ways to do this from the command line, but the easiest in this case is to just use Synaptic: System|Administration|Synaptic Package Manager| search for font scroll down to ttf-arabeyes and right-click. Click 'Mark for Removal'. That will remove the arabeyes fonts. You can do the same for others that you do not have use for, examples: ttf-alee ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-arphic-uming ttf-baekmuk ttf-bengali-fonts An alternate & easy method to see what you have on your system, and to view/remove is: Alt-F2 then enter fonts:/// and click 'Run'. That will open a folder showing all of the fonts. You can then double-click on any of the fonts to view, or click to remove my normal Nautilus methods. A nice utility to view Unicode characters is to install Gucharmap: $ sudo apt-get install gucharmap gucharmap will also allow you to copy & paste Unicode characters into an application. Like OOo, Ubuntu and other linux distros are global. So they accommodate many different fonts & lanuages... which is pretty darn impressive when you think about it :-) Just remove those that you don't want. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
