Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and OpenOffice
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:29:16
Message-Id: 4A313EE2.90008@f_philipp.fastmail.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and OpenOffice by Marco
1 Marco schrieb:
2 > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Florian
3 > Philipp<lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote:
4 >> Marco schrieb:
5 >>> Hi,
6 >>>
7 >>> I am using OpenOffice and am missing the Helvetica font. If I run fc-list:
8 >>>
9 [...]
10 >>>
11 >>> It seems that the Helvetica fonts are installed on my system.
12 >>> Nevertheless, they don't show up in OpenOffice. Any tips on how to use
13 >>> them in Oo?
14 >>>
15 >> At least on my system, Helvetica is a bitmap font. OOo doesn't seem to
16 >> put these in its font list.
17 >
18 > Hi,
19 >
20 > how can i see if a font is a bitmap or a truetype?
21 >
22
23 Just look at it in a font viewer like media-gfx/gnome-specimen. A bitmap
24 font gets uglier when it gets bigger (e.g. you can identify single
25 pixels when they are scaled up).

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