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 obsolete (it’s a > “hack” font, not encoded according to Unicode), but I’d be slow to > recommend removing it, just in case. > > Where did all your additional fonts come from? Some are installed > automatically by the system, some by various applications. > > You can open OTF fonts and save them as TTF fonts with Fontforge; but, > as Dotan has pointed out, you can use OTF fonts with Openoffice 3.2. > > To install additional fonts (whether Opentype or Truetype) just put them > into /usr/local/share/fonts if they’re for everybody who uses your > computer or into /home/***/.fonts [where *** is your user name] if > they’re just for you. > > I’m not an expert; the points above were learnt the hard way, and may > even contain some errors. If in doubt ... > Thanks, Séamas, I'll have a go with FontForge, not ready to move on to 3.2 just yet!
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