Questions tagged [fontconfig]
4 questions
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Install MS Truetype Fonts system-wide for all users
I would like to install the MS Truetype Fonts that come through the package ttf-mscorefonts-installer, so I did:
sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Accepting the license, the process completes without any errors. The fonts end up…
kongo09
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Configure fontconfig to ignore bitmaps in scalable fonts
I have the Microsoft C-Fonts installed, and they're wonderful. However, Calibri appears as a bitmap font in a lot of the sizes that it appears. How do I tell fontconfig to forbid Calibri (and Cambria,etc.) from being rendered from the embedded…
Paul Fisher
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Ugly font after KDE installation
You all know the nice default font that come with Ubuntu, right?
I just wanted to play a little bit with Kubuntu and installed the meta package
kubuntu-desktop
Everything was fine, however the font is now ugly as hell.
Not only on KDE, but also on…
robin
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Some Fonts don't appear in LibreOffice
I installed some fonts (mingliu.ttc) by putting them in ~/.fonts/
The font is visible in other applications (such as Abiword & Firefox).
But it does not appear in the font menu of LibreOffice.
When I type the font name manually, the characters…
user13030
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