Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Font display in LibreOffice documents

On 16/04/11 12:57, Ken Springer wrote:
> On 4/15/11 3:43 PM, Sascha Vieweg wrote:
>
> > You can download the bundle of Latin Modern Fonts at:
> >
> > http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern
> >
> > There is a Wiki on DejaVu Fonts, here:
> >
> > http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page
> >
> > However, both font families were installed on my system, I guess, Latin
> > Modern through MacTeX and DejaVu through LibO.
>
> A roadblock here...
>
> The Latin-Modern fonts are Postscript, and I don't know how to handle
> them on a Mac.  In my Windows days, it wouldn't be a problem.
>
> Any idea how to deal with it to save me some time in Googling all over
> the world?   :-)
>
>
>
> The Deja-Vu is something else all together.  :-(
>
> I've downloaded both the zip and tar.bz2 files, and get nowhere.
> Attempting to open them just takes me in some kind of loop from one
> compressed file format to another and back.  Even tried opening the
> zip file in Windows using WinRAR, and it says the compressed file has
> nothing in it.
>
> Any thoughts?
I thought the Latin-Modern to select should be the OTF fonts. 72 of
them. These should install to the mac in one of 2 ways.
http://www.myfonts.com/support/help_install_mac.html
http://www.switchingtomac.com/tutorials/how-to-install-fonts-in-os-x/

I just downloaded *2.33/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.33.zip 
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu/files/dejavu/2.33/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.33.zip>  
*from the link, unzipped it and the fonts were there*.
steve
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