Adding Fonts to LibreOffice

[Colin23erk]

I wanted to get "Magneto Bold "font for LibreOffice and found that Fonts are part of LL
Not sure if this is a recognized method but it worked for me ,


Downloaded > Magnetob.TTF
and copied it Clipboard


Using Catfish I searched for .TTF 
I then right clicked on a result showing the fonts folder and  > "Show in File Manager "
Then Paste into Folder


next time I opened LibreOffice it was in the list

[Lynne]

I have a folder named Fonts, in which I have all my favourite fonts. When I want to put it into my current distro I just make a new folder of a select few and name it ".fonts" and lo and behold, when next I boot up, it is there for whatever program I want to use.

[Colin23erk]

Thanks for the input


I like the idea of having "Favorite Fonts " I will give it a try


I cannot ,being a simple chap , understand the need for  so many Fonts  especially when so many of them are virtually the same .
Even finding the  one you know the name of in the list of Fonts displayed on the drop-down is a pain 


Colin

[Lynne]

Hi Colin,

I collected "my" fonts when I was into doing some graphics work. I needed some really plain ones and some really fancy ones too. I went looking and found many free ones and since I can't bear to delete them, I have them now for when I want them. Mostly they just sit on my backup drive and nag at me to use them, but I'm getting "not-so-young" and a little bit "old-timers" for creativity these days.

Lynne ...

[bikram]

Hi,

The way I manually add fonts to LL is through terminal.

Lets say I need to install Cardo True Type Font. I will download and extract the files. e.g. /home/myname/Downloads/cardo/Cardoi99.ttf

To avoid any conflict, I have created a new folder under /usr/share/fonts/
for an example we can create folder named "new"

Code:

sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/new

Then we need to copy the .ttf file in the original location or the new folder created.

Code:

sudo cp /home/myname/Downloads/cardo/Cardoi99.ttf /usr/share/fonts/new

Change /home/myname/Downloads/cardo/Cardoi99.ttf to source where you have downloaded and extracted your font files.
We can copy multiple files using wildcard e.g. *.ttf, in case we need to add multiple fonts.

Then we can either reboot our system or can manually rebuild font cache by running following command

Code:

fc-cache -f -v

if required you can run the command using sudo.

Post following these steps I was able to get my favorite fonts installed in LL and was able to use in GIMP and LibreOffice.

If there is any easier way you found like using any application/program, let us know.

Bikram

[bitsnpcs]

Hello bikram,
Welcome to the forum