[SOLVED] Very VERY dumb question about font

TheSilverFoxes · 2024-09-24 14:56:36

What is the font for the dots in the web version of PowerPoint? (no, LibreOffice Impress is not a substitute for me, at least in my workflow (Collaborative editing)
I can see its:
F0
A7
Can anyone help me? Cheers.

Last edited by TheSilverFoxes (2024-09-26 16:00:09)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2024-09-24 15:09:08

The various Noto fonts should help with that, they are designed to have as broad a coverage as possible to eliminate the "tofu" of which you speak.

TheSilverFoxes · 2024-09-24 15:29:42

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

The various Noto fonts should help with that, they are designed to have as broad a coverage as possible to eliminate the "tofu" of which you speak.

Hi, after installing the font (noto-fonts package) I still have the problem. Any ideas?
Thank you.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2024-09-24 15:31:31

Try the nerd variants. PowerPoint sounds trendy enough to need those.

seth · 2024-09-24 15:45:09

u+F0A7 is in the private use area, the nerd fonts have a pointing down finger there.
Absolutely nothing should systematically use that glyph, it will look different with every font.

Trilby · 2024-09-24 17:59:26

Is this web version of powerpoint somewhere we could see it? It may define the fonts it expects in the css or other style tags.

Funny0facer · 2024-09-24 19:58:17

could you maybe share a screenshot of what you are asking about? "I can see F0 A7" is not quite clear to me.

seth · 2024-09-24 20:07:04

pango will replace unresolvable glyphs with tofus that have the UTF codepoint written inside.
They're however typically tiny, so while I know what the OP sees, I'm not so sure whether the OP does (it's easy to misread this)

@TheSilverFoxes, in the light of the last comments, open the web inspector on the glyph - it will tell you what fonts are supposed to be resolved in the computed CSS and on top of that, copy the glyph (select it and ctrl+c) and then run

printf "$(xsel -ob)" | iconv -futf8 -tutf16 | od -x | head -1 | cut -d" " -f3

and post the number you get.

Edit: you probably have iconv, od, head & cut but might need to install xsel (or any wayland equivalent - you could also past the character into the command)

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TheSilverFoxes · 2024-09-25 03:46:45

Funny0facer wrote:

could you maybe share a screenshot of what you are asking about? "I can see F0 A7" is not quite clear to me.

https://imgur.com/a/9UvVKWn
Here is the image of the "tofu"
@seth I am unable to copy the glyph ( due to the way PowerPoint automatically insert it when I press Enter (?) )

seth · 2024-09-25 07:36:04

The web inspector should™ still allow you to look at it (including the printed "text")?
But that says F0A7 which only makes sense for web-fonts

Google spat out https://askubuntu.com/questions/983191/ … ord-online
It seems MSO relies on some local windows fonts being installed, woff should™ still work but the ubuntu page says "for chrome" which isn't how that works

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fo … nts.tar.gz looks like it's also getting you the font, they're actually cab files you can https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/cabextract/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-ms-fonts will likely work, too.

TheSilverFoxes · 2024-09-25 12:13:05

seth wrote:

The web inspector should™ still allow you to look at it (including the printed "text")?
But that says F0A7 which only makes sense for web-fonts
Google spat out https://askubuntu.com/questions/983191/ … ord-online
It seems MSO relies on some local windows fonts being installed, woff should™ still work but the ubuntu page says "for chrome" which isn't how that works

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fo … nts.tar.gz looks like it's also getting you the font, they're actually cab files you can https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/cabextract/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-ms-fonts will likely work, too.

ttf-ms-fonts doesn't seam to work for me
How can I install cab files?
Once again, thank you for your help.

seth · 2024-09-25 14:41:13

You just cabextract the *.exe files and install the fonts, but https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-ms-fonts shoud™ do exactly that for the https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fo … nts.tar.gz

fc-list | grep -i dings

If the ms fonts do not provide the glyphs or aren't what office 360 wants there, try the fonts from the ubuntu thread.

TheSilverFoxes · 2024-09-26 12:06:54

For some reasons, it sill doesn't work.

seth · 2024-09-26 13:12:01

Use the webinspector to figure what that thing is and what fonts the browser wants to use - posting "its does nots works lol" won't get this ahead.

TheSilverFoxes · 2024-09-26 14:23:29

seth wrote:

Use the webinspector to figure what that thing is and what fonts the browser wants to use - posting "its does nots works lol" won't get this ahead.

text-indent: 0px;
text-align: left;
vertical-align: baseline;
font-family: Wingdings, sans-serif;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
font-size: 29.6px;
line-height: 0.1;
margin-left: -36px;
margin-right: 19px;

EDIT: HTML
<span class="ListMarker" style="text-indent: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Wingdings, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 29.6px; line-height: 0.1; margin-left: -36px; margin-right: 19px;" aria-hidden="true"></span>

Is it this?
Also my bad about that half-assed reply, half of it just got cut out of some reason

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seth · 2024-09-26 14:34:25

font-family: Wingdings

fc-list | grep -i dings
fc-list :charset=f0a7

TheSilverFoxes · 2024-09-26 14:41:29

https://imgur.com/a/m80nA8G

seth · 2024-09-26 15:03:47

Please don't post images of text, post the text.

So you have wingdings (and webdings) and both provide the glyhp, though.

fc-match Wingdings # the font name is a bit off, is that from the fdo archive/cabextract?

What browser are you btw. using and is it a flatpack or from the repos?

TheSilverFoxes · 2024-09-26 15:17:01

seth wrote:

Please don't post images of text, post the text.
Oh alright, my bad about that.
So you have wingdings (and webdings) and both provide the glyhp, though.
fc-match Wingdings # the font name is a bit off, is that from the fdo archive/cabextract?
What browser are you btw. using and is it a flatpack or from the repos?

It's Firefox from the official repo

seth · 2024-09-26 15:42:27

Get these fonts, https://github.com/dv-anomaly/ttf-wps-fonts/tree/master
Move the other ones away and check

FC_DEBUG=4 pango-view --font="Wingdings" -t "" | grep family:

If that works (should) restart firefox and check the behavior of MS PowerBore

TheSilverFoxes · 2024-09-26 15:59:54

seth wrote:

Get these fonts, https://github.com/dv-anomaly/ttf-wps-fonts/tree/master
Move the other ones away and check
FC_DEBUG=4 pango-view --font="Wingdings" -t "" | grep family:
If that works (should) restart firefox and check the behavior of MS PowerBore

Thank you for the response, it worked!
Also thank you for your contribution, I cannot stand being a tech support provider for a week, let alone 12 years lol <3
Marking as Solved.

Trilby · 2024-09-26 17:00:26

Calling a skilled and experience hacker "tech support"? Them's fightin' words.

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