If you install fonts while LO is running it won't recognize them until you close LO and restart it.
Virgil > Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:04:56 +0000 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Font Qs > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > > Hi :) > The fonts are in the OS, not in the LO installer and different OSes > have different fonts by default but you can always add new ones. > Sometimes after installing a new font LibreOffice doesn't pick-up on > it and i don't know how to fix that. Our usual fonts expert hasn't > been around for several days so it might be worth checking the > archives to see if you can understand his usual answer to this. > > Base is a good front-end and prefers to work with an extenal back-end > rather than an internal one. That makes it ideal for > reading/writing-to back-ends on servers. Base can be a good local > front-end. On this list we often have some experts at working with > MySql as a back-end, sometimes Postgresql and others. > > Dual-booting is a great way to go but if you go that way with Vista > then it's probably wise to resize the Windows partitions from inside > Windows. Before Service Pack one Vista often broke if resized by > external tools (such as if you had Windows on another partition or > used GnU&Linux tools). Usually it's MUCH safer to do that sort of > thing to partitions that are NOT mounted (in order to avoid the > potential for corrupted data). Normally after resizing Windows it > needs to check the integrity of the partitions next time you boot into > Windows so just let it run through that process. I guess John knows > all that already but it's one for the archives. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > On 12 December 2013 19:28, John R. Sowden <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12/12/2013 04:53 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > >> > >> Hi :) > >> Font files are fairly small and deleting one, even one that you never > >> appear to use, could have fairly dire consequences in Windows (people > >> have tried it before). So it's better to keep them. Windows comes > >> loaded with many proprietary fonts with weird copyright restrictions. > >> Ubuntu therefore uses ones that have copyleft licenses (= permissive > >> copyright that don't restrict usage) fonts. You can probably google > >> it (or duck-duck-go or other search engine "it") to find those fonts > >> and install them on Vista fairly easily. I think you have to drag > >> them into the > >> C;/Windows/fonts > >> folder. > >> > >> > >> Just out of curiosity why go from Ubuntu to the currently worst > >> version of Windows? (hmm, some would say Win8 is worse but both are > >> clearly fighting for last place). Since they have just stopped > >> selling Win7 i would guess they stopped selling Vista ages ago and > >> it's end-of-life might even have happened already. Xp is still > >> supported (although not for long) and Win7 doesn't stop being > >> supported until next year. Errr, you don't have to answer, it's more > >> of a rhetorical question tbh. We all get forced into things we don't > >> want to do sometimes or find the best choice we have is a bad one. > >> > >> Regards from > >> Tom :) > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On 11 December 2013 22:11, John R. Sowden <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> I just installed LO 4.1 on my win vista laptop. the font I normally use > >>> on > >>> my desktops (ubuntu 13.10) is freesans. There is no freesans in the font > >>> list. Is this a 'windows thing'? > >>> > >>> How large (in K) are each font file (I'm sure they vary somewhat)? > >>> > >>> How do I delete the ones that I will never use? > >>> > >>> During the install, I saw a message saying that the install program was > >>> "deleting backup files". Are these files that were created during the > >>> install process, LO files from the previous version, or MY BACKUP FILES?? > >>> :) > >>> > >>> John > >>> > >>> > >>> > > I don't understand why freesans is not in the windows version. Does MS > > exert some kind of restriction to keep 'free' fonts out of apps? that's > > weird. > > > > Re: your question re: win. Good one. I use Ubuntu on my desktops. > > Unfortunately, I have a need for database applications that are run by > > others in my company, so i can't have them selecting queries, forms, etc. as > > in LO, and I am constantly looking for a database program with a language, > > e.g. Foxpro in Linux. Not found. The sqls are back ends, and I will need > > to learn a C like language to write the application. I hit the ground > > running with dBASE II in 1980 creating business applications with only some > > basic (dartmouth) experience. > > > > Since MS does not give us backup CDs for the laptops, and they create > > drivers for laptop features (modem and what else), I don't want to remove > > win from the laptops. I have only dual booted one with suse 8.2 a few years > > ago. > > > > > > John > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > > Problems? > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > deleted > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
