[libreoffice-users] Re: New User: Three Questions

On 07/19/2011 11:36 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, NoOp wrote:
>
> > It would be helpful if you let us know which distro & version of that
> > distro you are using. It's also helpful if you can tell us what the font
> > type is; .ttf, .otf
>
>    Sure. Slackware-13.1/32-bit.
>
> [rshepard@salmo ~]$ ls /usr/share/fonts/
> 100dpi/  ISO8859-2/  PEX/     TrueType/  afms/      encodings/     local/
> 75dpi/   ISO8859-9/  Speedo/  Type1/     atmfonts/  fonts.cache-1  misc/
> CID/     OTF/        TTF/     URW/       culmus/    fonts.cache-2  util/
>
> > You might try updating your font cache. On Ubuntu (and Fedora & others)
> > it is:
>
>    Just did this; no change.
>
> > Also test to see if the font(s) LO that isn't being picked up gets picked
> > up from a ~/.fonts folder instead. Copy a particular font that you can
> > easily recognize to there & then restart LO and see if the font appears.
>
>    I have no .fonts directory under ~/.

You need to create it. LO will pick up a font in ~/.fonts, so it's easy
to use that for testing, or for having a personalized, non-system wide
font if you need it.

> > etc. This has caught me off guard in the past, so if I can't find American
> > Typwriter, I open the font in either font viewer or fontforge to find out
> > what the actual font name is. Then check & yep, 'ITC American Typewriter'
> > is actually there.
>
>    I installed a bunch of fonts from a Bitstream cdrom I bought over a decade
> ago, and all these fonts have been here for at least that long. My company
> logotype is Baker Signet and that's not available in LO; the standard body
> text is Bitstream Amerigo, and that is also not seen. Bitstream Charter is
> seen, but none of the others. For example, LO shows URW Palladio Latin
> (Italic), but not URW Palladio Roman (upright). Shrug. I don't recall having
> this issue when I switched to OO.o when WordPerfect/Linux stopped working
> when libc5 became libc6 and Novell dropped the application.

The question is: what type of fonts are they? My reason for asking is
that LO has some issues with opentype fonts:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31821
amongst others:

<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=LibreOffice&content=font>
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