Thanks for the reply Steve. Yes, there are at last two fonts from different families in each document, the bulk of the text is in Century Schoolbook but the titles and subtitles are in Deja Vu Sans, and any Internet references are in a mono spaced font.
Regards, John =========================================== On Thu, 2020-11-05 at 08:24 +1300, Steve Edmonds wrote: > Do the documents you want to edit contain any fonts other than > "Century > Schoolbook", i.e. contain only a single font. > > With the documents I edit from various sources I just select-all > and > change the font to Arial which I use throughout. > > Steve > > On 05/11/2020 08:01, John wrote: > > I have tried your suggestion several times, with possible changes, > > and > > the font always shows in italics at the head of editor screen. > > > > To clarify, the correct font, named Century PS Pro in this > > incarnation, is available on the font options list when editing a > > document. > > > > BUT the incoming text documents were created on previous versions > > of > > Libre Office, or may have been imported from Open Office, > > Textmaker or > > Word Perfect, and show the name of the font as known to those > > programmes, ie "Century Schoolbook" so the font name shows in > > italics. > > > > So, I went to the Replacement table in Libre Office and set "font > > Century Schoolbook, replace with Century PS Pro" (which showed up > > as a > > choice on the drop down menu) and ticked the "always" box and > > "apply > > replacement table" and OK. These settings are retained between > > restarts of Libre Office.. > > > > But when I load a document for editing, Century Schoolbook still > > shows > > up in italics as the active font. If I then start to edit and > > click > > "Insert | Special Character" I get a very limited number of Latin > > special characters and a group of Sinhala glyphs. It is quite > > possible to change the Latin subset of characters but Libre Office > > always reverts to Sinhala when you return to editing the document. > > By > > experiment, if the font is recognized by LO then the correct > > special > > character substitution table is presented. > > > > The actual font in use seems to be correct in that the characters > > look > > "right" and all the metrics (height, spacing, leading, etc) work > > out > > as expected. > > > > I could possibly provide a soft link to the correct name but I'm > > afraid of blowing up something else that I haven't thought about > > (yet). > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > John > > ==================================================== > > On Sun, 2020-10-11 at 12:29 +1300, Steve Edmonds wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I also had a similar issue because the name of the font changed > > > with > > > an > > > upgrade. I.e "Century Schoolbook" to "Century Schoolbook L", > > > although in > > > my case it wasn't Century Schoolbook. > > > > > > The first step will be to get the font you need to show in the > > > fonts > > > list in LibreOffice. A solution here could be to use the system > > > font > > > installer tool, go to /usr/share/fonts/century-schoolbook/ > > > directory > > > and > > > try to install the fonts. The installer will either install the > > > fonts > > > where the system wants them or tell you they are already > > > installed. > > > > > > Restart LO and see if the font is in the font list. > > > > > > A backup for next time: I have a fonts directory in my home > > > folder, > > > I > > > copy fonts here as a backup when they are installed and it means > > > I > > > cam > > > always get back to fonts used in old documents even after an OS > > > upgrade, > > > assuming you back up this fonts directory. > > > > > > Steve > > > > > > > > > On 11/10/2020 10:07, Girvin Herr wrote: > > > > John, > > > > > > > > I am using Slackware Linux 14.2 (k4.4.227). > > > > > > > > Do you have any font substitutions in LO's Options > > > > > LibreOffice > > > > Fonts > Replacement table? > > > > > > > > Note that "/usr/share/fonts/century-schoolbook/" is not a > > > > standard > > > > Xorg font directory. Xorg probably does not have this > > > > directory in > > > > its > > > > list of font directories to search. That may be why LO cannot > > > > find > > > > it. > > > > I found it in "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" as ncen*.pcf.gz. It > > > > is > > > > listed > > > > in the fonts.dir plain text file in that directory. If the > > > > font > > > > path > > > > is not in the X font directory search list, then X cannot > > > > supply > > > > it to > > > > LO. I suggest to place it in the correct directory or add the > > > > century-schoolbook directory to X's font directory list. To do > > > > that, > > > > if you have an xorg.conf file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf YMMV), look > > > > for > > > > the > > > > "FontPath" entries and add your path to it. > > > > > > > > Another option is to run the font database manager, but I use > > > > that > > > > so > > > > little, I have forgotten how to do it. > > > > > > > > I just checked and discovered my LibreOffice 6.2.8.2 does not > > > > have > > > > Century Schoolbook listed either. However, my Apache > > > > OpenOffice > > > > 4.1.6 > > > > does have a "Century Schoolbook L" font listed. This implies > > > > that > > > > even > > > > if the font is in the correct directory, as in my case, LO is > > > > omitting > > > > it for some reason. Are you sure there is no entry in your > > > > font > > > > replacement table? > > > > So, another option might be to install AOO and see if that > > > > works > > > > better for you. > > > > > > > > HTH. > > > > > > > > Girvin Herr > > > > > > > > > > > > On 10/10/20 12:34 PM, John wrote: > > > > > I have a several chapters of a book that were originally > > > > > composed > > > > > using an earlier version of LibreOffice using what I believe > > > > > was > > > > > the > > > > > "Century Schoolbook" font. Now when I call them in for > > > > > editing, > > > > > the > > > > > font is shown in italics as "Times New Roman" with the note > > > > > "The > > > > > current font is not available and will be substituted". > > > > > > > > > > This is giving me a serious problem since the book contains > > > > > many > > > > > drawings and framed images and these get re-flowed due to > > > > > the > > > > > difference in the absolute height of the font being > > > > > substituted. > > > > > In > > > > > some cases the drawings are pages away from their correct > > > > > location and > > > > > have to be towed back, which is time consuming and creates > > > > > some > > > > > other > > > > > problems too. > > > > > > > > > > I checked and the Century Schoolbook font is installed where > > > > > expected; > > > > > in the /usr/share/fonts/century-schoolbook/ directory. > > > > > > > > > > I have not been able to figure out which font is being used > > > > > for > > > > > the > > > > > substitution, nor why the correct font cannot be found. > > > > > > > > > > Can anyone help? > > > > > > > > > > Details: > > > > > Linux Fedora 32 - workstation > > > > > LO 6.1.3.2 > > > > > > > > > > I am on a back level of Libre Office because we have > > > > > hundreds of > > > > > line > > > > > drawings in use in the .eps format that is no longer > > > > > supported > > > > > by LO > > > > > on newer releases. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any help! > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
