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Fonts not rendering correctly in applications

Asked by Billy Dossett

I am a new user still trying out Linux. I am running Ubuntu 10.10 (Meerkat Maverick?) and am having the following issue. I have a document created in the Windows version of Openoffice Writer. I tried to edit it in Ubuntu using the same version of Openoffice and some of the fonts do not render correctly. Some of the Lucida and script like fonts appear in the drop down menu, and appear correct there. However, when I use them in the document they all look the same (looks like a Verdana derivative). To see if it was an Openoffice issue I tried fonts in Gimp. I get the same results, so it has to be an OS issue.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

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Stefan Mezei (st-mezei-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1
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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

Please try https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+question/147328

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Billy Dossett (billz68) said : 		#3

I tried everything in the linked page, as well as the link it sent me to for adding fonts to OpenOffice.org. I seem to be getting the fonts in Gimp now, but some of the fonts are still not showing in OpenOffice.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

Please try to install libreoffice might be it works...

Open a terminal from Applications→Accessories→Terminal and copy and paste the rows below
please copy a row a time then press enter:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-pdfimport libreoffice-presentation-minimizer
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-presenter-console libreoffice-report-builder-bin mozilla-libreoffice

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibreOffice

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

LibreOffice is a community fork from Oracle OpenOffice

LibreOffice will be the default in the next Ubuntu 11.04

If this still doesn't work please try to remove the old .openoffice.org/ and .openoffice.org3/ configuration directory...

From Terminal type:

rm -fr $HOME/.openoffice.org

rm -fr $HOME/.openoffice.org3

Then restart openoffice...

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said : 		#6

Hi Billy

If this font problem shows both in OOo and in GIMP then it is an OS problem. No point trying to 'fix' OOo or installing LibreOffice.

Tony

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#7

You are right... i forgot Gimp...

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Billy Dossett (billz68) said : 		#8

After all of this Gimp now has a ton more fonts, but a lot of them seem to be foreign which may explain why they don't render on my machine. I'm not concerned about that. I now have libreoffice installed and the font issue hasn't changed at all. I have plenty of fonts that do work, and for my purposes that will suffice. It just troubles me that it's this much work to get a font to work in Ubuntu, and even then it doesn't always work. Century Schoolbook L is one that I do use sometimes that renders as similar to Times New Roman.

As far as this new office suite, will it be updated similarly to Openoffice?

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said : 		#9

LibreOffice will be the office suite in the next version of Ubuntu and so will be updated regularly.

If you can get a copy of the font file for Century Schoolbook L, usually a ttf file, onto your Ubuntu system, all you usually need to do is to double click on it to get it installed.

Tony

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said : 		#10

LibreOffice will be the office suite in the next version of Ubuntu and so will be updated regularly.

If you can get a copy of the font file for Century Schoolbook L, usually a ttf file, onto your Ubuntu system, all you usually need to do is to double click on it to get it installed.

Tony

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