Font cleanup problems

[Coburn Ingram]

I have struggled with this issue because all those non-European fonts (like
Gubbi and Kacst1) clutter up my font selection menu in LibreOffice. Some of
them are very nice fonts, but I will never have the expertise to take
advantage of them. And LibreOffice is "gullible" toward fonts--it does not
allow you to manage them from within the app. So half to two-thirds of my
default fonts, I will never use. I have found that I *can* delete them.
They are part of the Ubuntu desktop setup. But if you use Synaptic, you can
go in and manually select all the font families you do not wish to use, and
then right-click and uncheck "Automatically installed." This will clear the
package settings of all the fonts, and you can then delete or purge them.
You could also go into your Synaptic history once you have done that, copy
the list of fonts you deleted, paste them into Gedit, do a few
find-and-replace actions, and "voila," create a script for re-deleting all
those default fonts (make sure you also set them to "not automatic") every
time you install Ubuntu from scratch.

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 11:32 AM Stephen Satchell <list at satchell.net> wrote:

> I'm having a few problems with fonts on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.  Here are my
> issues:
>
> 1)  I just learned that Type 1 fonts are no longer supported.  I
> supposed this is because Adobe has retired Type 1 fonts.  True?  If so,
> why are Type 1 fonts still in the distribution?  Are existing Type 1
> fonts in Ubuntu going to be replaced with their equivalents in supported
> font types?
>
> 2)  Using Font Manager and Fonts, I find there are a number of fonts
> that just can't be removed using tools.   For example, "Droid", "Gubbi",
> "Kacst" family, "Kalapi", "LKLUG" are examples of fonts that are on the
> system, but not included by installed packages that I can find in
> Synaptic and Font Manager, let alone uninstall them.  I'm sure there are
> others that I would like to remove.  How?
>
> 3) Fonts application shows fonts that Fond Manager doesn't see.  One
> example is "dingbats", which is in
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/adobe-dingbats.enc.gz.  There may be
> others, but I've not investigated this fully.
>
> Can you point me to a guide to properly manage *all* the fonts in my
> installation?
>
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