[libreoffice-users] Re: New User: Three Questions

On 07/19/2011 07:29 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Sigrid Carrera wrote:
>
> > The box is the default when you open LibreOffice. If you want to start directly with writer, you 
> > can:
> > - start from a terminal with "swriter" (without the quotes)
>
> Sigrid,
>
>    I'll put this in the shell script rather than the default 'soffice' that
> seemed to work (it did with OO.o).
>
> > If you have them installed using the OS tools, then they should be
> > available for use with LibO as well. I don't know, what you can try now.
> > But maybe someone else has an idea.
>
>    Yes, they should all be recognized, but they're not. That's why I ask.
> Perhaps someone else can help (off-list will work, too).
...
It would be helpful if you let us know which distro & version of that
distro you are using. It's also helpful if you can tell us what the font
type is; .ttf, .otf


You might try updating your font cache. On Ubuntu (and Fedora & others)
it is:

$ sudo fc-cache -f -v

Also test to see if the font(s) LO that isn't being picked up gets
picked up from a ~/.fonts folder instead. Copy a particular font that
you can easily recognize to there & then restart LO and see if the font
appears.

I'm sure that you already know that some fonts don't appear according to
the file name... examples:

AmericanTypewriter-Bold.otf
is actually: ITC American Typewriter
ANTQUA.TTF
is actually: Book Antiqua

etc. This has caught me off guard in the past, so if I can't find
American Typwriter, I open the font in either font viewer or fontforge
to find out what the actual font name is. Then check & yep, 'ITC
American Typewriter' is actually there.







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