[LibreOffice 5.3/Ubuntu 17.04] Culmus Fonts not detected

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2017-06-22 11:53 GMT+03:00 Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>:
> 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...
It's not as bad as it sounds, only some of the fonts are only packaged
as Type1 (culmus-fancy is Type1 only) the rest either ships as
OpenType or TrueType.
There are also quite a few other Hebrew fonts out there part of the
different distros.
>
> 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?
It seems to be a trivial conversion, I did it using the Adobe Font Dev
Kit but it should also be possible using fontmagic and other OSS
tools.
The fonts seem to work fine and look the same as they used to.
The conversion tool did give me some errors/warnings so I don't know
100% if they are OK.
>
> 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.
If it's useful I'll upload the converted files somewhere...
Regards,
Eliyahu - אליהו
>
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