Making Inconsolata and Minion Pro visible to OpenOffice

[chandra]

I have installed the Inconsolata ttf fonts using

sudo apt-get install ttf-inconsolata

However, this font is not available in OpenOffice under the font selection drop down panel.

Moreover, running

sudo fc-cache -v -f

and opening OpenOffice after that does not seem to make a difference.

I have also separately installed the Minion Pro otf fonts and made them available system-wide. But they too are unavailable in OpenOffice.

Thanks in advance.

How do I make these fonts available to OpenOffice?

[mcduck]

have you logged out and back again after installing those fonts? Some programs require that before they recognize newly installed fonts.

[chandra]

have you logged out and back again after installing those fonts? Some programs require that before they recognize newly installed fonts.

Yes, indeed.

[chandra]

It appears that the package ttf-inconsolata is making available not a ttf font but in reality an otf font as is apparent by executing

dpkg -L ttf-inconsolata

The Minion Pro font is also an otf font.

Moreover, it appears that otf fonts are unsupported in OpenOffice.org 3.0 and 3.1, but reasonable workarounds are available. See for example:

http://www.se.eecs.uni-kassel.de/~th....org/bugs.html

http://linux-wizard.net/index.php?id_blog=142

To answer my own question, until otf fonts are supported natively in OpenOffoce.org, it appears that Inconsolata and Minion Pro will not enjoy availability in that suite of software.