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thelatinist

I am pretty sure AbiWord doesn't support .otf fonts. Neither does OpenOffice. Both are treating this not as a bug, but as a feature request which seems not to be getting top priority. This is a shame, since most of the major font producers have converted over all their libraries to OpenType.

Linux itself should be able to handle the fonts through fontconfig, and they should be available in Gedit and some other applications. Check to see if these fonts are available in Gedit; if they are, then they are properly installed but they won't be available to you in AbiWord.

A workaround is to convert the fonts to .ttf using FontForge. You will lose some of the special features of OpenType (ligatures, special kerning, etc.) but you should be able to use them in AbiWord and OpenOffice.org.

December 20th, 2007	#19
thelatinist Quad Shot of Ubuntu Join Date: Nov 2007 Beans: 505 Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon	Re: I have a font that ends in .otf I am pretty sure AbiWord doesn't support .otf fonts. Neither does OpenOffice. Both are treating this not as a bug, but as a feature request which seems not to be getting top priority. This is a shame, since most of the major font producers have converted over all their libraries to OpenType. Linux itself should be able to handle the fonts through fontconfig, and they should be available in Gedit and some other applications. Check to see if these fonts are available in Gedit; if they are, then they are properly installed but they won't be available to you in AbiWord. A workaround is to convert the fonts to .ttf using FontForge. You will lose some of the special features of OpenType (ligatures, special kerning, etc.) but you should be able to use them in AbiWord and OpenOffice.org. __________________ Intel P4 2.4GHz @ 2.8GHz, Asus P4B533, 512MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM, ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 7500. Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy). When you get the help you need, please mark the thread [Solved].