Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct setoffonts?

       and how does one acquire these nice fonts?
          I sure would like to know why the good ones seem to be replaced
by these odd-character ones,
             which may or may not be some legitimate Asian language  ;-)



On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:34 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P <
webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:


> I have been using Windows since Win95 days, whether I liked it or not.  I
> have been using Linux more than Windows since Feb 2010.
>
> The only real problem I had with Windows and Fonts, was almost every time
> I installed a new packages, it seemed to want to add a set of fonts to the
> /fonts/ folder whether I wanted them or not. Some did not give me any
> choice.  One dumped almost 120 new fonts into that folder, and it was not
> something I expected would have any and did not give me the option to say I
> do not want them.
>
> Yes, LibreOffice may, with some OS version, place fonts in a folder of
> their choosing and not mine or the normal place[s] where they are kept, but
> it is not as bad as some I have dealt with. One wanted to add over 550
> fonts to my Windows font folder.  That was a vector graphic package back in
> the Win XP days.
>
> What I do, when I find these other font folders, is make sure I copy the
> fonts to a "storage" folder and then install them so the rest of the
> packages can access them.  I did that with the LO fonts including the
> DejaVu ones.
>
>
>
> On 02/25/2013 05:40 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
>
> > I should have added my caveat that I claim no computer expertise. I'm
> > just a weekend geek with enough knowledge to be dangerous.
> >
> > When I copy fonts to my C:\Windows\Fonts folder, I get a message saying
> > something along the lines of "Installing ____ font" or words to that
> > effect. It may be (again I speak from ignorance) that copying the fonts
> > does the same thing as using the "official" install procedure. Windows is
> > notorious for having a zillion different ways of accomplishing a task.
> >
> > My experience has been that fonts installed in the C:\Windows\Fonts
> > folder are available system wide. Again, I've never had a problem
> > regardless of my method of installation.
> >
> > However, fonts installed in other folders may only be available to
> > specific programs. For example, Adobe Reader comes bundled with a couple of
> > really nice fonts (ex. Minion Pro), but it installs them in a subfolder of
> > the Adobe Reader program. I've always suspected that Adobe does this on
> > purpose so that the fonts are available *only* to Adobe Reader and not
> > other programs.
> >
> > Virgil
> >
> >  <snip>

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