[libreoffice-users] Re: Font display in LibreOffice documents

Hi, Steve,

Thanks for the info, please see below...

On 4/15/11 9:20 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote:
> On 16/04/11 12:57, Ken Springer wrote:
> > On 4/15/11 3:43 PM, Sascha Vieweg wrote:
> >
> > > You can download the bundle of Latin Modern Fonts at:
> > >
> > > http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern
> > >
> > > There is a Wiki on DejaVu Fonts, here:
> > >
> > > http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page
> > >
> > > However, both font families were installed on my system, I guess, Latin
> > > Modern through MacTeX and DejaVu through LibO.
> >
> > A roadblock here...
> >
> > The Latin-Modern fonts are Postscript, and I don't know how to handle
> > them on a Mac.  In my Windows days, it wouldn't be a problem.
> >
> > Any idea how to deal with it to save me some time in Googling all over
> > the world?   :-)
> >
> >
> >
> > The Deja-Vu is something else all together.  :-(
> >
> > I've downloaded both the zip and tar.bz2 files, and get nowhere.
> > Attempting to open them just takes me in some kind of loop from one
> > compressed file format to another and back.  Even tried opening the
> > zip file in Windows using WinRAR, and it says the compressed file has
> > nothing in it.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> I thought the Latin-Modern to select should be the OTF fonts. 72 of
> them. These should install to the mac in one of 2 ways.
> http://www.myfonts.com/support/help_install_mac.html
> http://www.switchingtomac.com/tutorials/how-to-install-fonts-in-os-x/

Two things, I didn't remember that OTF stood for Open Type Fonts, and I 
didn't know that OS X supported OTF and Postscript fonts.  But I did 
know that System 9 could be used, so it was my assumption that 
Postscript was the format I needed to install.  It's been over 10 years 
since I actively dealt with different font formats.  I just went with 
whatever fonts were installed on my system.

I'll try those out tomorrow afternoon.

My interest in really digging into a particular OS to find out what can 
actually be done with an OS has been dormant for a number of years.  I 
just wanted to turn the darn thing on and use it with no problems.  But 
of late, I've burned a couple Linux Live CD's to see what that 
hullabaloo is all about, the the visual appearance of some of them have 
resparked that interest!   :-)  I like to actually use a computer, I 
really could care less about the programming and hardware end of the 
package.

> I just downloaded *2.33/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.33.zip
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu/files/dejavu/2.33/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.33.zip>
> *from the link, unzipped it and the fonts were there*.
> steve
> *

I found the problem, although I have no explanation as to why this 
happens.  And... I've never had it happen before...

A lot of pages/links for downloading end up opening a blank tab in your 
browser when you left click on it.  So, by habit at my end, I right 
click and select "Save Link As" so I don't end up with an "Untitled" and 
empty tab.  And I end up with the screwed up zip file.  I even tried it 
again after reading your post.  FF 3.6.16, haven't taken the FF 4 plunge 
yet.

But...  If I left click on the link, either yours or the one you can get 
to by following Sascha's link, the zip file downloads and extracts as it 
should.

I have *no* explanation as to why.



Ken



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