Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?

On 02/23/2013 06:22 PM, anne-ology wrote:
>         Then how does one get these new ones into the programs for use?
As you quoted me before, you weren't reading what I said: put the
ffonts in the font directory of your distro.  they should then be
available for any program on the machine, including LO. That's
just what I did on the Mint installation.  AAMOF, I deleted all
the crap fonts that were on the machine--Liberation and a
whole batch of Asian fonts in languages I couldn't even recognize--
and just dumped in a whole directory of usable fonts--probably
True-Type, supplied on another distro that wasn't so damned PC.

--doug
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> On 02/21/2013 12:30 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
> > > On 02/21/2013 12:01 PM, Paddy Landau wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am wondering if Libre Office has a separate set of fonts from the
> > > > operating
> > > > system, or at least some of the fonts.
> > > >
> > > > I'll explain my problem.
> > > >
> > > > If I have a look at Character Map to find a character that I want (let's
> > > > say
> > > > it is an aeroplane), I can find it in the Webdings font (Unicode 00d2, or
> > > > Ò). See screenshot 1:
> > > >
> > > > <http://nabble.**documentfoundation.org/file/**
> > > > n4039236/Character_Map.png<http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Character_Map.png>
> > > > But when I use that character in Libre Office and set the font to
> > > > Webdings,
> > > > it shows a different character, specifically an in-box. See screenshot 2:
> > > >
> > > > <http://nabble.**documentfoundation.org/file/**n4039236/Libre_Office_**
> > > > characters.png<http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Libre_Office_characters.png>>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Note that not all characters do this. For example, the first 52
> > > > characters
> > > > (A-Z and a-z) are correct.
> > > >
> > > > I would like to know how to solve this discrepancy, so that I can search
> > > > for
> > > > characters in Character Map (or an equivalent program) and then use them
> > > > in
> > > > Libre Office. (I have tried an alternative program, Specimen Font Viewer,
> > > > and it shows the same thing as Character Map.)
> > > >
> > > > I am using Linux Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit, fully updated) with Libre Office
> > > > 4.0.0.3 (installed directly from the Libre Office website).
> > > >
> > > > Thank you.
> > > My 12.04 shows a list of fonts at
> > > /opt/libreoffice4.0/share/**fonts/truetype/
> > >
> > > They are mostly "DejaVu" and "Liberation" fonts but there are others
> > > listed as well.
> > >
> > > I made sure the fonts listed there were also listed in the /.fonts/
> > > hidden folder.  that way I had the same fonts for all my packages.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >   I was recently looking at Mint, a derivative of Ubuntu, and I was
> > appalled at the paucity of fonts. "Liberation" is ugly! You need to find a
> > good
> > set of True-Type fonts and install them.  Then you can have, for example,
> > Times-Roman.  And most of the odd-ball ones that you might use
> > once in your life-time. I copied the entire fonts directory from PCLOS and
> > replaced the one in Mint. But I think you can get True-Type from
> > Microsoft, free. Not sure how you do that--Google's your friend.
> >
> > --doug


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