[LibreOffice 5.3/Ubuntu 17.04] Culmus Fonts not detected

[Nadav Har'El]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2017, E.S. Rosenberg wrote about "Re: [LibreOffice 5.3/Ubuntu 17.04] Culmus Fonts not detected":
> For those of you who are interested:
> As of 5.3 LO no longer supports Type1 fonts which is how the
> culmus-fancy font set ships.
> The best solution is to convert them to OpenType or TrueType fonts.

Wow...
So I'm lucky that Fedora 25 which I use still uses LibreOffice 5.2.
Someone (TM) really needs to fix this issue, because I'm not aware of
any alternative quality Hebrew fonts on Linux...

What does it take to "convert" a Type 1 font into OpenType or TrueType?
Is it just a trivial format conversion issue, or something more
involved? Is something lost in this conversion - precision, ability to
edit, or anything else?

On https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104701
someone states (I have no idea if this statement is correct):
  " ... PS Type 1 font conversion is trivial, and most Adobe PS Type 1
    was converted years ago and is distributed as TTF/OTF already."


Maxim, are you still on this list? It's been ages since I've been here
myself.

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