Adding OpenType (OTF) fonts to X in Slackware 10.2

davidsrsb · 04-25-2006, 11:11 AM

I have just made a bug report to OpenOffice on this. I found that OO2.0.2 does not let me use spadmin to add fonts --ttf or otf.
Somebody has made another report that OOm162 which is the test build just after 2.0.2 was crashing on Gentoo from spadmin.

tomdkat · 04-25-2006, 01:19 PM

So, OO on Linux currently does not support TTF or OTF?

Peace...

kodon · 04-25-2006, 02:10 PM

http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html#5
explains how OOo accesses fonts. the link to
the setup guide should go over how to add fonts
to OOo...

(hmm...thought xset fp+ added dirs to that conf.
seems things have changed since i last used it)

[ahh. the guide is for OOo version 1.x]

tomdkat · 04-25-2006, 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kodon

http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html#5
explains how OOo accesses fonts. the link to
the setup guide should go over how to add fonts
to OOo...

Thanks for the linky.

Peace...

davidsrsb · 04-26-2006, 10:57 PM

I see that I now have freetype 2.1.10 from the linuxpackages install about 6 months ago and now 2.1.9 is in the X11 directory. Has one of the several X11 updates sin the last few months overwritten it?

tomdkat · 04-27-2006, 02:34 AM

I know XFree86 comes with a version of FreeType that's not the latest (same with fontconfig and Mesa). So, whenever I upgrade XFree86, I also re-install the latest FreeType, FontConfig, and Mesa libraries also.

Maybe X.org is in a similar boat.

Peace...

Toods · 04-27-2006, 05:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidsrsb

I see that I now have freetype 2.1.10 from the linuxpackages install about 6 months ago and now 2.1.9 is in the X11 directory. Has one of the several X11 updates sin the last few months overwritten it?

I believe that all versions of Slackware X11 packages, including Slackware-Current, still include version 2.1.9 of Freetype. so that could explain why you have that version. Anyway, I believe version 2.1.9 to be far better if you want to get good rendering of MS truetype fonts. There are bugs in 2.1.10 with respect to certain fonts such as Verdana.

davidsrsb · 04-28-2006, 05:46 AM

I dropped back to a 2.1.9 version with smoothing.
OO display and KOfficeprinting still not right so I tried using fontforge to convert to ttf and both wps work. I tried a year ago and at that time OO did not like the converted ttf so something is now better.

gbonvehi · 04-30-2006, 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yalla-One

1. the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file specifically says not to edit the file as it is automatically generated - does this mean I should really have changed something else?

Yeap, you should've created a file called local.conf with a similar content to what I posted.

sombragris · 06-11-2007, 09:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yalla-One

One interesting note though - while these fonts now show up when I do xlsfonts and also in Scribus and the KDE font program correctly, they are completely unreadable in OpenOffice.org 2.0(2). In the font list (they used to not appear at all), they are written in courier type themselves, and when I select the font, all text is less than 1 mm high and looks like fly droppings on the page.. This is not an issue in other apps than OpenOffice... Any ideas?

Yalla

As of now, OpenOffice.org does not support OpenType fonts under GNU/Linux. See:

http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=16032
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/R...s&msgNo=127513 and the whole thread.