I have no idea why Canonical can't set up your default font packages based on your locale. It's trivial.
On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 1:24 PM Coburn Ingram <thru...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have struggled with this issue because all those non-European fonts > (like Gubbi and Kacst1) clutter up my font selection menu in LibreOffice. > Some of them are very nice fonts, but I will never have the expertise to > take advantage of them. And LibreOffice is "gullible" toward fonts--it does > not allow you to manage them from within the app. So half to two-thirds of > my default fonts, I will never use. I have found that I *can* delete > them. They are part of the Ubuntu desktop setup. But if you use Synaptic, > you can go in and manually select all the font families you do not wish to > use, and then right-click and uncheck "Automatically installed." This will > clear the package settings of all the fonts, and you can then delete or > purge them. You could also go into your Synaptic history once you have done > that, copy the list of fonts you deleted, paste them into Gedit, do a few > find-and-replace actions, and "voila," create a script for re-deleting all > those default fonts (make sure you also set them to "not automatic") every > time you install Ubuntu from scratch. > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 11:32 AM Stephen Satchell <l...@satchell.net> > wrote: > >> I'm having a few problems with fonts on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Here are my >> issues: >> >> 1) I just learned that Type 1 fonts are no longer supported. I >> supposed this is because Adobe has retired Type 1 fonts. True? If so, >> why are Type 1 fonts still in the distribution? Are existing Type 1 >> fonts in Ubuntu going to be replaced with their equivalents in supported >> font types? >> >> 2) Using Font Manager and Fonts, I find there are a number of fonts >> that just can't be removed using tools. For example, "Droid", "Gubbi", >> "Kacst" family, "Kalapi", "LKLUG" are examples of fonts that are on the >> system, but not included by installed packages that I can find in >> Synaptic and Font Manager, let alone uninstall them. I'm sure there are >> others that I would like to remove. How? >> >> 3) Fonts application shows fonts that Fond Manager doesn't see. One >> example is "dingbats", which is in >> /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/adobe-dingbats.enc.gz. There may be >> others, but I've not investigated this fully. >> >> Can you point me to a guide to properly manage *all* the fonts in my >> installation? >> >> -- >> Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list >> Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss >> >
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