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 > > /opt/openoffice.org/... tree and located .../font/truetype but the > > only things in there were DejaVu... and Liberation... (and something > > called opens___.ttf??). Since there are a number of other fonts > > in the list that do display useful stuff, like dingbats and Purisa, > > where do they come from? > > > > 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? > > > > Bill > > Bill > > The fonts you see in Writer are basically the fonts you have installed > on your system and it is there you need to look for a solution. For > example in windows fonts are normally in the C:\windows\fonts\ folder. > So try finding the fonts directory on your system and having a look at them > > Thanks > > Rob > I did say 'Linux' in my query - I don't go near Windows if I can possibly avoid it! OK, I have located some of the fonts that I'd like to remove. I'll have to do a bit more searching around for the rest.
Anyone any advice on converting .otf font to .ttf? Bill -- +---------------------------------------+ | Bill Purvis, Model Engineer | | email: [email protected] | +---------------------------------------+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
