Fonts (non) available in LibreOffice

hchiper · 2022-02-08 15:30

Hi all,

I'm using LibreOffice 7.0.4 installed with apt (not using Software Centre) on Gemini 4.7 with Plasma.
I love the "Century Schoolbook" font. It is listed as a choice in Kate, Kwrite, Firefox... but it doesn't appear in any drop-down list inside LibreOffice.
I searched unsuccessfully for it with

$ find / -iname Ce*.ttf
$ find / -iname Ce*.otf

On the other hand, font drop-down lists are filled with a huge amount of "Noto" fonts, which seem to come from the q4os-fonts-noto package, and which I'm likely to never use.

Where could "Century Scoolbook" reside and how could I manage to have Libreoffice detecting it?
Would it be safe to uninstall the q4os-fonts-noto package?

Any help would be appreciated.

Last edited by hchiper (2022-02-08 18:10)

q4osteam · 2022-02-08 16:53

Do not uninstall "q4os-fonts-noto" package, it provides a few fonts for system menus and desktop. There are not many different fonts in the "q4os-fonts-noto" package, about 4 different types.

You can list all other installed Noto fonts packgaes:
$ dpkg --get-selections | grep noto
and remove, some of them as needed.

hchiper · 2022-02-08 19:54

Many thanks q4osteam.
I've uninstalled all noto fonts, except "q4os-fonts-noto" which is indeed 1 font with 4 types (normal, italic, bold, bold-italic).
The drop-down lists are now much more convenient for my usage.

The "Century Schoolbook" mystery remains.

I found that the "C059" font looks much like "Century Schoolbook" but with an awful name. It has 6 variants but 2 seem duplicates (Classique == Moyen and Italique == Moyen italique). An advantage is that it appears in Libreoffice font drop-dow list.
But I'd much rather use a font with a meaningful name than some sort of code like C059.

In Plasma font configuration tool, C059 _and_ Century Schoolbook are both present (see attachment), and so they are in the font selection tools in Kate, Firefox, and so on, the only exception beeing Lbreoffice.

Is there a solution here or should I better uninstall these two fonts and try to install .ttf files copied from another computer ?

Attachments:

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bin · 2022-02-11 07:41

Century Schoolbook is an old Type1 font. Not all applications support Type 1 any more.

However it is part of the gsfonts package and that is how it gets on your system. Type 1 font names are not 'normal' hence you could not find it by search.

There is a TTF conversion of CS if you want it. Download this zip file https://github.com/TimothyGu/Century-Sc … -pages.zip and extract the fonts from the fonts folder therein.

Other ttf / otf versions may be around if you search for them.

hchiper · 2022-02-13 10:12

Thanks for your help bin.

I have uninstalled those two fonts (circled in my screen capture) and installed the one you mentioned (using the GUI inside "System configuration"). Everything is now working fine for me.

I noticed that in the src/ folder within the zip file the CS font's name is... C059???l.pfb.

Also, the font installed using the GUI were copied into the /usr/local/share/fonts/c folder ('c' like "Century..."), and not into the /usr/share/font folder.
Fonts are thus spread in different folders. Does not seem so clean, but it's working and I'll let it as is. Probably there is a reason for this I'm not aware of.

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Fonts (non) available in LibreOffice

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