[PLUG] Where did Arial go? Ubuntu 12.04 LibreOffice Writer

[Tim Bruce - PLUG]

On Wed, February 13, 2013 10:25, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> On 02/13/2013 09:44 AM, Tim Bruce - PLUG wrote:
>> On Wed, February 13, 2013 09:35, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
>>> Upgrades sure are annoying.
>>>
>>> I've migrated to my Ubuntu 12.04 (32 bit) machine. I'm diving into a
>>> real project this morning. The first thing I need to do is to set a
>>> header to a Word doc with the name of the file rendered in Arial 9pt
>>> bold italic. I've been doing this for months. I copy the file name,
>>> past
>>> it into the header of the Word doc (using LibreOffice Writer, of
>>> course), select what I just pasted, right click on it and pick Arial
>>> from the list of available fonts. This worked fine in LibreOffice
>>> Writer
>>> on Ubuntu 10.04. But Arial is not on the list. I checked to be sure
>>> that
>>> msttcorefonts is installed. And, actually, Arial is present already in
>>> the template Word doc file. I can type Arial into the font selection
>>> box
>>> in the LibreOffice Writer tool bar, and it changes the font of the
>>> selection to Arial.
>>>
>>> So, why isn't Arial listed as a font option? Times New Roman isn't
>>> there, either, although it's present in the template file.
>>>
>>> <rant on>
>>> Aren't all these "improvements" wonderful?
>>> <rant off>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Dick Steffens
>>>
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>> I think you need to install the "Microsoft" true type fonts, which
>> aren't
>> installed by default.
>>
>> If I remember correctly, the following command will start the process:
>>      sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>>
>
> Thanks for the idea, but that's already done:
>
> rsteff at Gateway-E-4500D:~$ sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
> [sudo] password for rsteff:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> ttf-mscorefonts-installer is already the newest version.
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
> required:
>    kde-l10n-engb kde-l10n-zhcn
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
> rsteff at Gateway-E-4500D:~$
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>

Mine are installed in
    /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/

so I'd check to see if they are located in there.  If they are, maybe you
can run something to "fix" the fonts.

Check the following man pages:
    mkfontscale
    mkfontdir
    fc-cache
to help you rebuild the files / listings.

Tim
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