Re: [users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-12 Thread Programmer In Training
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Re: [users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-12 Thread Programmer In Training
Resent, sorry if some get this double. On 03/11/10 11:50, bill purvis wrote: > I'm baffled by the list of fonts displayed in Writer. Most of them > look to be alien to someone who only uses English and I'd like to > remove them from the list. I did a bit of searching through the > /opt/openoffice.

Re: [users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-12 Thread Séamas Ó Brógáin
I just downloaded all the DejaVu fonts and put them into my own user fonts folder (/home/sob/.fonts). Only the basic ones show up: no condensed. I also cleared font caches (fc-cache -rv), but there was no difference. Next I opened one of the fonts, DejaVuSansCondensed, in Fontforge, and now I

Re: [users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-12 Thread Séamas Ó Brógáin
Hello, John. I actually deleted all the condensed versions, so I can’t test this immediately. (Chacun à son goût!) I’ll download them now and see what happens (Ubuntu 9.10, Openoffice 3.2). Bear in mind that Ubuntu (or Kubuntu) won’t see condensed or other variants as subdivisions of plain D

Re: [users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-12 Thread john d. herron
On 03/11/2010 11:50 PM, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote: You may find some fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts; you’ll also find some in /usr/share/fonts, Be careful about removing fonts that are used by the operating system. If in doubt, don‘t. opens___.ttf is the “Open Symbol” font. I think it’s obsolet

Re: [users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-12 Thread bill purvis
On Thursday 11 March 2010, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote: > You may find some fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts; you’ll also find some > in /usr/share/fonts, Be careful about removing fonts that are used by > the operating system. If in doubt, don‘t. > > opens___.ttf is the “Open Symbol” font. I think it’s

Re: [users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-11 Thread Séamas Ó Brógáin
You may find some fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts; you’ll also find some in /usr/share/fonts, Be careful about removing fonts that are used by the operating system. If in doubt, don‘t. opens___.ttf is the “Open Symbol” font. I think it’s obsolete (it’s a “hack” font, not encoded according to U

Re: [users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I'd also like to add a font to the list but it's in opentype font format > (.oft) (according to the Linux file command). I found the FAQ on how to > add fonts (using spadmin) but it doesn't recognise that format. Anyone > know a way to convert it to something usable? > Open Office 3.2 supports o

Re: [users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-11 Thread bill purvis
On Thursday 11 March 2010, Rob Clement wrote: > On 11/03/2010 19:50, bill purvis wrote: > > I'm baffled by the list of fonts displayed in Writer. Most of them > > look to be alien to someone who only uses English and I'd like to > > remove them from the list. I did a bit of searching through the >

Re: [users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-11 Thread Rob Clement
On 11/03/2010 19:50, bill purvis wrote: I'm baffled by the list of fonts displayed in Writer. Most of them look to be alien to someone who only uses English and I'd like to remove them from the list. I did a bit of searching through the /opt/openoffice.org/... tree and located .../font/truetype

[users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-11 Thread bill purvis
I'm baffled by the list of fonts displayed in Writer. Most of them look to be alien to someone who only uses English and I'd like to remove them from the list. I did a bit of searching through the /opt/openoffice.org/... tree and located .../font/truetype but the only things in there were DejaVu..

Re: [users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-11 Thread Programmer In Training
On 03/11/10 11:50, bill purvis wrote: > I'm baffled by the list of fonts displayed in Writer. Most of them > look to be alien to someone who only uses English and I'd like to > remove them from the list. I did a bit of searching through the > /opt/openoffice.org/... tree and located .../font/truet

[users] How can I edit the list of fonts in Writer?

2010-03-11 Thread bill purvis
I'm baffled by the list of fonts displayed in Writer. Most of them look to be alien to someone who only uses English and I'd like to remove them from the list. I did a bit of searching through the /opt/openoffice.org/... tree and located .../font/truetype but the only things in there were DejaVu..