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

Hi :)
I get the impression that the different distros are not that hugely different 
"under the bonnet" even the ones that are in different families (ie Slackware 
family vs Debian family).  Agreed that it's worth being aware that there might 
be differences tho.  

Regards from
Tom :)




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From: NoOp <glgxg@sbcglobal.net>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 0:53:45
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: New User: Three Questions

On 07/28/2011 05:13 PM, NoOp wrote:
> 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.

Even stranger... I created .afm files for 400 postscript fonts (licenced
of course) and had those in ~/.fonts (the .pfb and .afm files) and LO
3.3..x picked them up fine, but LO 3.4.x did not. So I moved them to
/usr/share/fonts/PSFONTS, updated the fc-cache, and now LO 3.4 is
picking them up as well. Duplicated on a different machine w/o issue, so
I reckon that I'll pass on filing the bug. Note that my system is Ubuntu
(debian based) and not slackware, so this info may not be of use to Rich
and his system.
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