WIN7 On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com> wrote: distro: the operating system on your computer (Windows, Linux, OS X,
etc.) AAMOF: as far as my other fonts The latter is a "guess" but it seems logical. So, if you would tell us one more time, what is your operating system. That will tell us the location of your font folder or folders. --Dan 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' ;-) ;-) ;-) On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Doug <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 theffonts 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 theoperating 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.****documentfound**ation.org/file/****<http://ation.org/file/**> <http://documentfoundation.**org/file/**<http://documentfoundation.org/file/**>n4039236/Character_Map.png<**htt**p://nabble.**documentfoundation.** org/file/n4039236/Character_****Map.png<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.****documentfound**ation.org/file/****n4039236/**<http://ation.org/file/**n4039236/**> Libre_Office_**<http://**documentfoundation.org/file/**** n4039236/Libre_Office_**<http://documentfoundation.org/file/**n4039236/Libre_Office_**>characters.png<http://nabble.****documentfoundation.org/file/****<http://documentfoundation.org/file/**> n4039236/Libre_Office_****characters.png<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 tofind 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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