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 the
operating
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.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.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 to find
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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