Scott, thanks for your tip. I'll try to convert them all, though it's not a perfect solution.
What I have done is copying all over my font library from Windows to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/windows and it automagically ate up a lot of my space. The reason that I have done that was my finding: Ubuntu 8.04 does a very very impressive work on rendering fonts. I was really amazed by that fact, because it was only half a year ago, I could not use linux to read long documents because it simply hurts my eyes with the way it rendered fonts on screen. Some of the reference renderings are: http://s3.amazonaws.com/wasabim/vista-ie7-render-reference.png http://s3.amazonaws.com/wasabim/vista-safari-render-reference.png http://s3.amazonaws.com/wasabim/vista-safari-render-reference-2.png The two nearest comparable references are: http://s3.amazonaws.com/wasabim/vista-firefox-render-reference.png http://s3.amazonaws.com/wasabim/linux-firefox-render-reference.png BTW, I would say 1000 fonts isn't a whole lot of fonts, literally. One typeface like this one: http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/delicious.html has 6 fonts in it. Some typefaces even have like 20-ish fonts in it. So 1000 fonts is only some two-hundreds of typefaces. Some of the free high-quality links that worth having a look are: http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts http://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/fonts/ http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/fonts/?order=9&alltime=yes - Huan. On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 17:33, Scott Thatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found this script somewhere that will use fontforge to convert a font > to truetype. You may lose some features, but regular things like > kerning should be preserved. There are some truetype options that do > affect how well the font works, but I don't know off-hand what the > defaults would be when you run this script. You could run it inside > another script in order to automate converting all the fonts at once. > The only problem I've seen with this approach, is that if a font > contains ornaments that are bigger than standard letters (the Adobe Pro > fonts often do), then OpenOffice will set it's line height much too > high. Sometimes I've had to edit out certain glyphs to get fancy fonts > to play nicely with OpenOffice. > > #!/usr/bin/fontforge > # Quick and dirty hack: converts a font to truetype (.ttf) > Print("Opening "+$1); > Open($1); > Print("Saving "+$1:r+".ttf"); > Generate($1:r+".ttf"); > Quit(0); > > By the way, the people who care about typography would give you this > stock response when you mention 1000 fonts: > > If you got a package with 1000 fonts, it was either > - Very expensive, or > - Contains fonts of dubious quality and/or legality. > > Also, many fonts have EULA's that prohibit modification. Adobe is one > exception to that rule. Their EULA is friendly toward people who need > to modify fonts to use with things like Linux and TeX. > > Sorry if the above is unneeded information, but sometimes I can't help > but mention the legalities of type, since respecting licenses is also > important in the Open Source world. :) > > Scott > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 06:38:07PM -0500, Huan Truong wrote: >> I have installed ~1000 OpenType fonts to my laptop. Gedit and stuff >> worked fine and I was able to see these fonts, but lately I found out >> that OpenOffice and Abiword do not support OpenType fonts ( >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Font-FAQ#Are_OTF_fonts_supported_in_OpenOffice.org_2 >> ). Which is crazy to me. I tried OOO 3 but OOO 3 Beta doesn't, either. >> I wonder if any of you have any ideas to use those fonts to use in my >> documents? I don't mind using alternatives. >> >> PS: After some minutes googling around, I had the confirmation from >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=645363&page=2 . But >> converting 1000 fonts with FontForge isn't really a choice for me. >> It's so painful to open each of them, and save as... it may drive me >> crazy. >> >> ************************************* >> I am pretty sure AbiWord doesn't support .otf fonts. Neither does >> OpenOffice. Both are treating this not as a bug, but as a feature >> request which seems not to be getting top priority. This is a shame, >> since most of the major font producers have converted over all their >> libraries to OpenType. >> >> Linux itself should be able to handle the fonts through fontconfig, >> and they should be available in Gedit and some other applications. >> Check to see if these fonts are available in Gedit; if they are, then >> they are properly installed but they won't be available to you in >> AbiWord. >> >> A workaround is to convert the fonts to .ttf using FontForge. You will >> lose some of the special features of OpenType (ligatures, special >> kerning, etc.) but you should be able to use them in AbiWord and >> OpenOffice.org. >> ************************************* >> >> >> -- >> "Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". >> http://tnhh.info/ >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with Subject: unsubscribe >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with Subject: unsubscribe > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- "Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". http://tnhh.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
