Installing and Uninstalling TTF Fonts
Nathan Sivin
nsivin at sas.upenn.edu
Fri Aug 11 13:01:36 UTC 2006
I was surprised to find nothing about installing and--equally
important--uninstalling fonts in previous posts and various manuals,
including the _OpenOffice 2.0 Writer Guide._ Some posts about
installation in other Linux distributions give the impression that
installing is a good bit more complicated than just putting fonts in the
font directory.
Specifically, I want to get rid of most of the TTF fonts that load
automatically when I fire up Writer, since more than half seem to be for
Indian and other languages that I don't read. I also want to install the
TTF fonts that I use in Windows on the same dual-booting computer--not
the "core fonts," but a few less boring ones such as Palatino Linotype,
my default serif font, and Simsun, the Unicode font that I use for
Chinese and Japanese.
Has anyone recorded step-by-step instructions for installing and
uninstalling TTF (and TTC) fonts? I notice, by the way, that in Ubuntu a
font family is stored in its own folder, but no special procedure is
needed to give Writer access to all the individual fonts in the folder.
Thanks and cheers,
--
Nathan Sivin
History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104-6304
(215) 898-7454
nsivin at sas.upenn.edu
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~nsivin/
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