Getting rid of proprietary fonts

Getting rid of proprietary fonts

Matan Ziv-Av matan at svgalib.org
Sun Jan 22 21:38:49 IST 2012


On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Nadav Har'El wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012, Matan Ziv-Av wrote about "Re: Getting rid of proprietary fonts":
>> On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Nadav Har'El wrote:
>>
>>> I wonder if anybody knows how I can use OpenOffice, or some other tool,
>>> to find *where* in the document a certain font is being used?
>>
>> Did you try OO's "find and replace" dialog? It seems to be able to
>> search by format/attributes (hidden behind a "more options" button,
>> at least in libreoffice-writer-3.4.4.2 in Fedora).
>
> Thanks - even after you told me about this option, it was hard to
> find :-)
>
> But I don't understand what this does... All I can check is "font" -
> where do I tell it *which* font to look for? I tried putting "Arial" in
> the text box, choosing the "font" button, and then searching. It found
> nothing. Maybe I, or you, or both of us, are misunderstanding what this
> dialog is supposed to be doing...

Don't look in "Attributes", but in "Format". Make sure that you only set 
the font family to search in "CTL" and not in "Western", as if there is 
a family (or another condition) in both, the search if for "and" of both 
conditions.


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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan at svgalib.org





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