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

On 02/23/2013 07:40 PM, anne-ology wrote:
>        Thank you for responding;
>             but I haven't the foggiest idea what you've said.
>
>        the font directory of the distro  ???   ...  AAMOF  ???
>
>        I would really enjoy getting rid of all those 'junk' fonts ... 
> and finding then dropping in the good ones;
>             but I haven't a clue as to how to so do.
>
>        ok, it's probably some simple step to locate these then drop 
> them into whatever folder ...
>             but 'the more I learn of these glorified typewriters, the 
> stupider I feel'  ;-)   ;-)   ;-)
AAMOF=as a matter of fact

You will find a bunch of directories labelled fonts. You want one that 
has a list of
fonts showing as subdirectories. In my distro (pclos) they're in /usr/share:

[doug@linux1 fonts]$ ls -la
total 184
drwxr-xr-x  17 root root  4096 Feb 19 00:22 ./
drwxr-xr-x 266 root root 12288 Feb 22 12:04 ../
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 98304 Jun  8  2011 100dpi/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Jun  8  2011 75dpi/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Jun  8  2011 cyrillic/
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 Sep 22  2011 default/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Jun  8  2011 encodings/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Feb 22 12:07 java/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 20480 Jun  8  2011 misc/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Jun  8  2011 OTF/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Jun  8  2011 Speedo/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Feb 19 00:22 truetype/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Aug 20  2012 ttf/
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 Jun  8  2011 TTF/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Jun  8  2011 Type1/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Jun 12  2011 ubuntu/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Oct 16  2010 webcore/

Notice the names: three sets of true-types, a type 1, even
cyrillic, if you happen to use Russian! All of the Latin letters
can be modified with accent marks, etc. if you make a
compose key. You'll also have  some signs, like EUR, ¢, ?,
½, ¼, ß (German ess-tset) and whatever.

I thought I saw, somewhere in this thread, someone who
told where to get the Microsoft fonts--these are True-Tupe,
or ttf, and have the kind of fonts you want so as to look
professional in whatever you write.  BTW, do _not_
remove the old font directory without having one at
hand to replace it with, because if you do, there will be
absolutely _nothing_ readable in any program! As I
have said, all the programs on the system use the
fonts in that font directory. There might be one or two
exceptions, but more likely not.  You don't have to
remove the old font directory--you can just drop the
new fonts in with the old, and you'll just have a bigger
list to choose from. I dumped it, because I thought the
existing ones in Mint were basically useless.
If you have a search routine in your email, search for ms,
I think that's the abbreviation the previous poster used,
when telling how to get Microsoft fonts. They're free, you
don't have to buy them.

Hope that helps.  --doug


> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net 
> <mailto:dmcgarrett@optonline.net>> wrote:
>
>     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 <mailto: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/**
>                     <http://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_**
>                     <http://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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