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#1

Can you please advise me how to add MTSF fonts. I've always done this in the past using spadmin.exe but in Libreoffice spadmin no longer has the add fonts facility. I've searched the faqs, tried the help files and looked on facebook and spent hours trying register for the forum. All without success.

I am an author and all my work is done using Comic sans Ms and it has been so easy in the past to add my MTSF fonts. So far as I am concerned it's an essential requirement.

On another subject, something that has always bugged serious WP users like myself, hammering away for hours a day has been the inability to export personal dictionaries from Open Office when changing a PC or buying a new netbook. Any thoughts on that?

regards and best wishes in your venture,

G. Crocker.

#2

What OS are you using? Windows, Linux, Mac OSX? It looks like Windows, but please state it.

MTSF fonts? What fonts names are they? Do you want to add those fonts for LibreO only
of your want to have them system wide?

Windows has/had a Font section in its "Control Panel". I add fonts that way and I make sure
I check the "copy fonts" section so the font will be copied to the Fonts folder.

When I go from one computer to another, I copy my Fonts folder [TTF and OTF fonts only]
and save it on a thumb drive, or something. Then I use the Font options on the new
computer to install all the fonts that I have on the thumb drive that are not on the new computer.
Currently I have 330 fonts in my Ubuntu 10.10. Many are pre-installed by Ubuntu and things
can go weird if I delete them. The rest are my standard fonts, including Comic Sans MS.

#3

Many thanks for getting back to me. I'm using Ubuntu 10.10. I also use Win 7 on my netbook and if all goes well on the Linux PC will add Libre office to the netbook as well.

#4

Hi Garth,

On another subject, something that has always bugged serious WP users
like myself, hammering away for hours a day has been the inability to
export personal dictionaries from Open Office when changing a PC or
buying a new netbook. Any thoughts on that?

I take it that you have tried copying the folder containing the
dictionaries to overwrite that of any new installation of LibreOffice
when change your PC or buy that new netbook ? As far as I recall there
was a problem when the format of the user defined dictionaries changed
at one point, but I thought that was over and done with by now.

Alex

#5

Many thanks for getting back to me. I'm using Ubuntu 10.10. I also use Win 7 on my netbook and if all goes well on the Linux PC will add Libre office to the netbook as well.

I use Ubuntu 10.10 myself. For me, I place the fonts in a folder that will
hold the ones I want to add to the ones already installed by Ubuntu.
Then I highlight them and press enter/return. That will bring up a
pop-up with an "install" button. If all goes well, these fonts go into
the hidden ".fonts" folder. Do not place the fonts directly into that
folder. Let the system do that during the install. I also use packages
like "Fontmatrix" to view the font info. KDE has a nice "font installer"
install/view package as well.

#6

Many thanks. Cracked it!

regards,

Garth

#7

Hi :slight_smile:

I think the package used to be called something like

msftcorefonts

or something like that but i just checked in Ubuntu 10.04 and found

ttf-mscorefonts-installer

contains "Comic Sans" and the rest. At the bottom of the package description
was this note.

"NOTE: the package ttf-liberation contains free variants of the Times, Arial and
Courier fonts. It's better to use those instead unless you specifically need one
of the other fonts from this package."

I think it is the usual story of just using your package manager to sort out
installing the fonts and then they should be available in all relevant programs.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#8

There is a file for Mandrake10 that used to install these on Pbone site:

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/15071888/dir/mandrake_10.x/com/msttcorefonts-bootstrap-0.1-4brs.noarch.rpm.html

I usually find that the Libreration fonts work just as well.

Cheers

Marc

#9

Many thanks to everybody who replied to my plea for help. I'm now sorted and up and running. May I say at this point that I'm a Linux 'user'. Not a genius at IT alas but an ardent fan of the system which I use to write novels six hours a day. I have a feeling that the 'users' outnumber the 'developers, sysops and webmasters' many fold and we guys making good use of the system would be lost without the brains that drives it. So many thanks to you all.

Incidentally, this is hardly the place to raise this but it may be of interest - the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) recognised 50 years ago that there were 'users' and true engineers. They divided the engineering division into two halves. Operators who were more skilled at using the equipment, ie. Sound desks and cameras etc and true Engineers who knew not only how it worked but why it worked and how to fix it when it ground to a halt!

I fear that until Linux in general grasps the difference and appreciates it fully it will always have difficulty competing, since a certain Mister Gates spotted it and did something about it too long ago for comfort.

My thanks to all,

Garth.

#10

I had no idea the liberation fonts existed. If they do what i hope then i will
fairly soon be able to liberate myself from proprietary fonts :slight_smile:
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: