[gentoo-user] Fonts and OpenOffice

[gentoo-user] Fonts and OpenOffice

[Marco]

Hi,

I am using OpenOffice and am missing the Helvetica font. If I run fc-list:

~ $ fc-list | grep -i helv
Helvetica:style=Oblique
Helvetica:style=Bold
Helvetica:style=Regular
Helvetica:style=Bold Oblique

It seems that the Helvetica fonts are installed on my system.
Nevertheless, they don't show up in OpenOffice. Any tips on how to use
them in Oo?

Thanks!

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Best regards,
 Marco

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and OpenOffice

[Florian Philipp]

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Marco schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using OpenOffice and am missing the Helvetica font. If I run fc-list:
> 
> ~ $ fc-list | grep -i helv
> Helvetica:style=Oblique
> Helvetica:style=Bold
> Helvetica:style=Regular
> Helvetica:style=Bold Oblique
> 
> It seems that the Helvetica fonts are installed on my system.
> Nevertheless, they don't show up in OpenOffice. Any tips on how to use
> them in Oo?
> 

At least on my system, Helvetica is a bitmap font. OOo doesn't seem to
put these in its font list.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and OpenOffice

[Marco]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Florian
Philipp<lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote:
> Marco schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using OpenOffice and am missing the Helvetica font. If I run fc-list:
>>
>> ~ $ fc-list | grep -i helv
>> Helvetica:style=Oblique
>> Helvetica:style=Bold
>> Helvetica:style=Regular
>> Helvetica:style=Bold Oblique
>>
>> It seems that the Helvetica fonts are installed on my system.
>> Nevertheless, they don't show up in OpenOffice. Any tips on how to use
>> them in Oo?
>>
>
> At least on my system, Helvetica is a bitmap font. OOo doesn't seem to
> put these in its font list.

Hi,

how can i see if a font is a bitmap or a truetype?

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Regards,
 Marco

[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts and OpenOffice

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 06/11/2009 06:46 PM, Marco wrote:
> how can i see if a font is a bitmap or a truetype?

If it offers all sizes instead of only a few ones, it's truetype.  If 
not, it's bitmap.

I don't think a truetype version of Helvetica is in any portage package. 
  You will have to grab the font from somewhere else and install it 
manually.  If you're using KDE, you can do that with its font installer.

There's a clone of Helvetica though in the media-fonts/liberation-fonts 
package.  It's recreation of Helvetica, Times and Courier with a "free" 
license.  I prefer the original though; it's easy to get it if you can 
use Google.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and OpenOffice

[Florian Philipp]

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Marco schrieb:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Florian
> Philipp<lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote:
>> Marco schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am using OpenOffice and am missing the Helvetica font. If I run fc-list:
>>>
[...]
>>>
>>> It seems that the Helvetica fonts are installed on my system.
>>> Nevertheless, they don't show up in OpenOffice. Any tips on how to use
>>> them in Oo?
>>>
>> At least on my system, Helvetica is a bitmap font. OOo doesn't seem to
>> put these in its font list.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> how can i see if a font is a bitmap or a truetype?
> 

Just look at it in a font viewer like media-gfx/gnome-specimen. A bitmap
font gets uglier when it gets bigger (e.g. you can identify single
pixels when they are scaled up).


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