Font cleanup problems

[Coburn Ingram]

I have no idea why Canonical can't set up your default font packages based
on your locale. It's trivial.

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 1:24 PM Coburn Ingram <thrusce at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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