[SOLVED] Can't use ttf Windows fonts in Libreoffice

nibbles · 2013-06-23 20:16:28

Hi all,

I've been a relatively amateurish Arch user for about two years now, so I do know my way around the wiki and AUR, but as far as I can tell I'm the only one having this issue. I dual boot with Windows 7, and need to be able to display and use the ttf fonts from Windows 7 on my Arch partition, especially when I'm using Libreoffice. Now this has always been pretty easy. I've simply used the ttf-win7-fonts package from the AUR, but for some reason that package is no longer working. I've also tried manually installing the fonts per the instructions on the wiki, but to no avail. No matter what I do, I just can't get Libreoffice to recognize these fonts. The cursor simply blinks as I pound away on the keyboard, and no new characters are added to the document. Something that may be relevant: My graphics chipset is an ATI HD 4350, so I have to use the [catalyst-hd234k] repository for my video driver and [xorg111] for my X server. And yes I have added the font paths to my xorg.conf file, and updated the font cache as user and as root.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Nibbles

EDIT: Forgot to mention that the fonts are displaying just fine in other apps. Tried the following, and it didn't work either.

pacman -Rs libreoffice

pacman -Scc

pacman -S libreoffice

Last edited by nibbles (2013-06-23 20:54:52)

ConnorBehan · 2013-06-23 20:30:15

I don't know what the problem is but there's also ttf-ms-fonts in the AUR you can try.

nibbles · 2013-06-23 20:32:23

I did try that, actually, even though those aren't all the fonts I need. It didn't help. Maybe I should take this over to the libreoffice forums?

Last edited by nibbles (2013-06-23 20:33:24)

nibbles · 2013-06-23 20:54:21

Yeah I'm pretty sure this is an issue with libreoffice. I just installed openoffice and the problem is solved.

bohoomil · 2013-06-24 10:32:51

Just for the record: click.

ernetas · 2013-06-24 11:27:17

Try downgrading libreoffice-common package to 4.0.3.

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#1 2013-06-23 20:16:28

[SOLVED] Can't use ttf Windows fonts in Libreoffice

#2 2013-06-23 20:30:15

Re: [SOLVED] Can't use ttf Windows fonts in Libreoffice

#3 2013-06-23 20:32:23

Re: [SOLVED] Can't use ttf Windows fonts in Libreoffice

#4 2013-06-23 20:54:21

Re: [SOLVED] Can't use ttf Windows fonts in Libreoffice

#5 2013-06-24 10:32:51

Re: [SOLVED] Can't use ttf Windows fonts in Libreoffice

#6 2013-06-24 11:27:17

Re: [SOLVED] Can't use ttf Windows fonts in Libreoffice

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