Thank you for responding;
but I haven't the foggiest idea what you've said.
the font directory of the distro ??? ... AAMOF ???
I would really enjoy getting rid of all those 'junk' fonts ... and
finding then dropping in the good ones;
but I haven't a clue as to how to so do.
ok, it's probably some simple step to locate these then drop them
into whatever folder ...
but 'the more I learn of these glorified typewriters, the
stupider I feel' ;-) ;-) ;-)
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Doug <[email protected]> wrote:
On 02/23/2013 06:22 PM, anne-ology wrote:
>
>> Then how does one get these new ones into the programs for use?
>>
>> As you quoted me before, you weren't reading what I said: put the
> ffonts in the font directory of your distro. they should then be
> available for any program on the machine, including LO. That's
> just what I did on the Mint installation. AAMOF, I deleted all
> the crap fonts that were on the machine--Liberation and a
> whole batch of Asian fonts in languages I couldn't even recognize--
> and just dumped in a whole directory of usable fonts--probably
> True-Type, supplied on another distro that wasn't so damned PC.
>
> --doug
>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Doug <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 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.**documentfound**ation.org/file/**<http://documentfoundation.org/file/**>
>>>>> n4039236/Character_Map.png<htt**p://nabble.documentfoundation.**
>>>>> org/file/n4039236/Character_**Map.png<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.**documentfound**ation.org/file/**n4039236/**
>>>>> Libre_Office_**<http://documentfoundation.org/file/**n4039236/Libre_Office_**>
>>>>> characters.png<http://nabble.**documentfoundation.org/file/**
>>>>> n4039236/Libre_Office_**characters.png<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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