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

On 07/27/2011 06:46 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, NoOp wrote:
>
> > I only referred to that as it shows making a ~/.fonts folder etc. Please
> > create and put the BakerSignet font in there & see if LO picks it up.
>
> > Not really, as I don't know what the astrisk is in '1152a___.*' - I know
> > of no fonts that are listed as .* Nor are there any fonts that use a
> > .atm extension. .atm is used for the Adobe Type Manager font
> > catalog/file & ATM fonts are generally Type 1 fonts with an .pfb, .afm
> > and .pfm (and possibly .pfa) files. So I'm still confused.
>
>    The asterisk means multiple suffixes. In this case, 1152a___.afm,
> 1152a___.inf, 1152a___.pfb, and 1152a___.pfm. I mistyped afm as atm.

Got it.

>    Well, I guess LO is different from other apps in that it cannot see fonts
> in /usr/share/fonts, but does in ~/.fonts. Very strange. Regardless, I will
> make softlinks in ~/.fonts to the directories in /usr/share/fonts.
...

Might be an issue with the slackware build - you might consider filing a
bug report.

It gets even more interesting; I was experimenting with some old Adobe
FrameMaker .pfb files & used FontForge to convert a .pdb to the
respective .pfa & .afm files. Placed those in ~/.fonts and LO 3.3.3 and
OOo 3.2.1 pick up the font just fine. However, LO 3.4.2 rc2
(pre-release) and OOo-Dev 3.4.0 do not. I'll file a bug on those if I
get time in the next few days.




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