Re: [libreoffice-users] Which Font Is Substituted?

John,

I am using Slackware Linux 14.2 (k4.4.227).

Do you have any font substitutions in LO's Options > LibreOffice > Fonts 
> Replacement table?

Note that "/usr/share/fonts/century-schoolbook/" is not a standard Xorg 
font directory. Xorg probably does not have this directory in its list 
of font directories to search. That may be why LO cannot find it. I 
found it in "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" as ncen*.pcf.gz. It is listed in 
the fonts.dir plain text file in that directory. If the font path is not 
in the X font directory search list, then X cannot supply it to LO. I 
suggest to place it in the correct directory or add the 
century-schoolbook directory to X's font directory list. To do that, if 
you have an xorg.conf file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf YMMV), look for the 
"FontPath" entries and add your path to it.

Another option is to run the font database manager, but I use that so 
little, I have forgotten how to do it.

I just checked and discovered my LibreOffice 6.2.8.2 does not have 
Century Schoolbook listed either. However, my Apache OpenOffice 4.1.6 
does have a "Century Schoolbook L" font listed. This implies that even 
if the font is in the correct directory, as in my case, LO is omitting 
it for some reason. Are you sure there is no entry in your font 
replacement table?
So, another option might be to install AOO and see if that works better 
for you.

HTH.

Girvin Herr


On 10/10/20 12:34 PM, John wrote:
> I have a several chapters of a book that were originally composed
> using an earlier version of LibreOffice using what I believe was the
> "Century Schoolbook" font.  Now when I call them in for editing, the
> font is shown in italics as "Times New Roman" with the note "The
> current font is not available and will be substituted".
>
> This is giving me a serious problem since the book contains many
> drawings and framed images and these get re-flowed due to the
> difference in the absolute height of the font being substituted. In
> some cases the drawings are pages away from their correct location and
> have to be towed back, which is time consuming and creates some other
> problems too.
>
> I checked and the Century Schoolbook font is installed where expected;
> in the /usr/share/fonts/century-schoolbook/ directory.
>
> I have not been able to figure out which font is being used for the
> substitution, nor why the correct font cannot be found.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Details:
>         Linux Fedora 32 - workstation
>         LO 6.1.3.2
>
> I am on a back level of Libre Office because we have hundreds of line
> drawings in use in the .eps format that is no longer supported by LO
> on newer releases.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> Regards,
>
> John

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