Font-FAQ
This is the place where the work on the Font-FAQ for OOo 2.x (*nix) will happen... Feel free to fill out missing items, suggest new ones or correct mistakes and fix typos!
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Contents
- 1 Adding Fonts
- 2 Font Fallback
- 2.1 What is this Font Fallback in OpenOffice.org 2
- 2.2 How does Font Fallback work
- 2.3 Where is the VCL.xcu in OpenOffice.org 2
- 2.4 How does the VCL.xcu work
- 2.5 How can I configure OpenOffice.org 2 to perform a specific font substitution
- 2.6 My document using TNR looks different than on Windows
- 2.7 My document using TNR looks awful
- 2.8 How can I find out what font OpenOffice.org 2 really uses
- 3 Glyph Fallback
- 4 Freetype
- 5 AntiAliasing
- 5.1 What is AntiAliasing
- 5.2 Is AntiAliasing supported in OpenOffice.org 2
- 5.3 What are the minimum system requirements to make AntiAliasing work
- 5.4 Where can I configure AntiAliasing in OpenOffice.org 2
- 5.5 What are embedded bitmaps in fonts
- 5.6 How can I tweak OpenOffice.org 2 to ignore embedded bitmaps
- 6 Fontconfig
- 6.1 What is Fontconfig
- 6.2 Is Fontconfig supported in OpenOffice.org 2
- 6.3 What are the limitations in OpenOffice.org 2's Fontconfig support
- 6.4 What font is OpenOffice.org 2 using for the user interface
- 6.5 How can I change OpenOffice.org 2's user interface font
- 6.6 If I don't use Gnome 2.6, how can change the user interface font though
- 6.7 What is font aliasing
- 6.8 A few number of my fonts isn't antialiased, why
- 6.9 Which fonts on my desktop are provided by Fontconfig
- 7 Misc
- 7.1 Where are all the fonts installed on my system
- 7.2 How do I find out what fonts are installed on my system
- 7.3 What is a scalable font
- 7.4 What is a bitmap font
- 7.5 What is a proportional font
- 7.6 What is a fixed-width font
- 7.7 What are these long font names
- 7.8 Scrolling the font combo-box freezes OpenOffice.org 2
- 7.9 What can I do if scrolling the font combo-box crashes OpenOffice.org 2
Adding Fonts
How do I add fonts to OpenOffice.org 2 exclusively
There are two choices: Either for all users of OOo or only for one single user. If you intend to add the fonts...
- for all users of OOo (but only within OOo, put the fonts into the directory
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/share/fonts/truetype/
- only for one single user of OOo, put the fonts into the directory
~/.openoffice.org2/user/fonts/
Instead of moving around the fonts manually, you can as well use the Printer Administration tool "spadmin" to install the fonts. If you cannot find a "OpenOffice.org Printer Administration" launcher in your desktop's menu, you can lauch it manually by executing
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/spadmin
How do I add fonts to one user's desktop exclusively
When using fontconfig (which is the case for virtually every modern/current distribution out there), it is sufficient to place the fonts in the directory
~/.fonts/
If it doesn't exist already, create it. After adding or removing fonts, you should regererate the font-cache of that directory by running
fc-cache ~/.fonts/