eastern font in new version

I have just installed ver 4 on my ubuntu 13.04 system but when I try to
change the set font most if not all are indian script fonts. Is there any
way theses can be removed and western fonts installed. I have tried looking
in the documentation but there seems to be mention of fonts.
cheers dave

What Ubuntu language[s] packages have you installed with 13.04?

Which LO language pack[s] are you using?

Have you tried adding, say en_GB, to the install?

If you are using an Eastern language pack, there may be some setting that does not want you to remove the Eastern fonts. This is just a guess though.

What type of Western fonts have you installed on your system? Have you added the MS core fonts? Since they are the "default" Western font for many people, they might fare better for changing Eastern font settings to Western ones.

There has to be some core language setting in either LO or Ubuntu that is hampering the change.

I run 12.04, but with the default USA English install, and I have no problems with changing any and all of the default fonts.

Hi thanks for reply. I have not installed any packs on to my pc, i just did a strait down load from ubuntu software centre, in fact the version of ubuntu 13.04 is a new update and the language fonts were as the are with the new installation of LO I removed the old version before installing the new one. I cant find anything to let me install language pack the only thing I can find on LO website is extension and templates, nothing I can find in the documentation helps me either
thanks

Dave Mapeley  Cert Nat Sci (open)

Please try this. . .
remove the current version you have installed.

Download the proper DEB install to your system and install the needed language and help packs [that order] you may need. I use "standard" English, so I just install the help pack.

Install 4.0.4 DEB [64 or 32 bit].

I use Ubuntu 12.04LTS, but tested 13.04. I run the 4.0.4 64-bit version.

Sometimes there can be issues that crop up with the LO version on the repositories. There should not be, but it has been know to happen that if you remove/purge/uninstall the repository version and install the one on the LO download page[s], the "issues" seem to go away. Why? I do not know, but one time I had the repository download of one of the needed install files "fail" to download correctly. That is what caused the issue back then. Since all of the files for the LO download page version are in an archive, there is little chance that one of the files will be corrupted or missing.

As for language fonts, which languages do you use or install on your system?

Since you started this with a problem with an India language font as part of the issue, did you want or need that font or that language? I make sure of what fonts I have installed in my font system. I tend to uninstall any non-English fonts, if I have no use for them. Of course I save copies just to make sure. You do have to make sure none of the fonts are part of the "system font" listed in "System/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts" If you want, change all of them to one of the Ubuntu "named" fonts before you start removing any "unknown fonts" in your .fonts hidden folder, or any other font references. I found out the "hard way" that you need to do this or you might remove one of those systems fonts by mistake. At that point you hope for the ability to get it back from your backups of the dot folders. I had to reinstall 10.04 once when I first did this. Of course, now I have 2 different backups of my /home folder[s] including the hidden dot folders. One on a different internal drive, and one on an external drive.

Hi thanks for your reply i have done as you said by doing a freash install with a en gb pack the scripts are still there but there are more normal fonts as well. it was funny but when i loaded my book i am writing, which was started in ms office as publishers want it in that format, it loaded in new times roman font which was not in the font list. i am now happy with the font i have got thanks for your help

Dave Mapeley  Cert Nat Sci (open)

All quiet on the eastern font, then... :slight_smile:

Mark

Does anybody know if the old Atari game, "Eastern Front" has been
ported to Linux, or even to Windows?

--doug

You looking for the font used on the Atari system or a game?

Hi :slight_smile:
Game.  It was a tpyo.  It's an odd name imo because everywhere has somewhere else that is east and to some people "the eastern font" was actually to their west (unless going the longer way around).

Someone recently sent me a link to a Steam Game that is on special offer at £30 but i am still quite enjoying Glest and Wesnoth.  I do quite like the idea of the Humble Bundle collections that come out from time to time.  I think if more Gnu&Linux people did buy games then the Games industry might take more notice and that might have a domino effect resulting in better drivers. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Hi Doug

Wow that's a blast from the past, I remember this game on a port for the Commodore 64 and Spectravideo 328 I owned so long ago.

No, no port to Linux or Windows, but you can use an emulator, such as on this webpage, they can run on Windows and Linux http://www.atariage.com/2600/emulation/, (and many webpages like it, just Google Atari Emulator) and then acquire the Eastern Front ROM. Plus depending on which Linux distro you use, if you use Linux, you can find many emulators on the install disk waiting to be installed. All I can say at the moment, the emulators are legal but to acquire the ROM is not, as they still retain copyright.

But if you can figure it out from here, you are on your way.
<http://www.atariage.com/2600/emulation/>

Andrew Brown

in case some did not get the reference:

All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front>

in addition:

In 1930, an American film of the novel was made, directed by Lewis Milestone. The screenplay was by Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews, C. Gardner Sullivan, with uncredited work by Walter Anthony and Milestone. It stars Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1930 for its producer Carl Laemmle Jr., and an Academy Award for Directing for Lewis Milestone. It was the first all-talking non-musical film to win the Best Picture Oscar. It also received two further nominations: Best Cinematography, for Arthur Edeson, and Best Writing Achievement for Abbott, Anderson and Andrews.

Hi Tom

No, it's an actual game from Atari, Mark was playing with the words, if I am correct, with "Eastern Front - Font" and Doug picked up on this asking about a genuine early 1980's game. Check out my email posted a short while ago.

Sorry Kracked, you cracked this one wrongly :smiley:

Ah! Steam, hate it overall as to what it's doing to the gaming world, but they own over 75% of the market now. But a good thing is that Steam client is now available on Ubuntu (possibly other distros as well), and if you own the Windows game, you get a free port-over to linux, so Windows games running directly within Linux. But I also use Wine, and I have all of my top games running in Ubuntu, with no issues, learnt long ago how to get this right. I mainly fly virtual aviation SIM's such as FS9, FSX, FlightGear, X-Plane and DCS, and belong to two VAC's (Virtual Aviation Clubs) here locally. I've been flying for many years, having had a genuine PPL, 30 odd years ago. All of the above now run fine under my Ubuntu distro, either natively (FlightGear and X-Plane 9 and 10), or through Wine (MS flightsims, DCS). So watch for high end games on Linux, it's the next new frontier and there is plenty happening in this scene.

Regards

oops! guess _I_ missed the reference!

Hi Doug

Wow that's a blast from the past, I remember this game on a port for the
Commodore 64 and Spectravideo 328 I owned so long ago.

No, no port to Linux or Windows, but you can use an emulator, such as on
this webpage, they can run on Windows and Linux
http://www.atariage.com/2600/emulation/, (and many webpages like it,
just Google Atari Emulator) and then acquire the Eastern Front ROM. Plus
depending on which Linux distro you use, if you use Linux, you can find
many emulators on the install disk waiting to be installed. All I can
say at the moment, the emulators are legal but to acquire the ROM is
not, as they still retain copyright.

But if you can figure it out from here, you are on your way.
<http://www.atariage.com/2600/emulation/>

Andrew Brown

I don't remember a ROM--it seems to me that the game came on
either tape or CD, or maybe floppy, and I remember it took forever to
load. What would you do with a ROM on a modern computer system? Where
would you plug it in?

--doug

/snip/

Hello Doug,

load. What would you do with a ROM on a modern computer system? Where
would you plug it in?

Andrew should have said ROM /image/.

Hi Doug

Ah! sorry, to explain it's now referred to as a ROM, for the emulators. Whoever, has taken the code off the tapes/plugin cartridges/CD's etc and created a digital file with the extension .rom. This is now how the "games" are distributed for the emulators, no more hardware involved.

So the only place on today's modern hardware, where you plug the ROM in, is in the emulators folder. Just do a Google search for "Emulator game ROM's, and you'll understand what I am on about.

Regards

Andrew Brown