[LibreOffice 5.3/Ubuntu 17.04] Culmus Fonts not detected

[Dov Grobgeld]

It should be quite trivial to do the conversion with the open source
package FontForge. Note that converting Type1 fonts to otf is a lossless
conversion, as OpenType is a superset of Type1 and TrueType. Type1 and
TrueType store the font paths differently as Type1 uses Bézier curves,
wheras TrueType uses quadratic B-splines.

See:

   - http://www.adobe.com/products/type/opentype/opentype-faq.html

Regards,

Dov

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:04 PM, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il>
wrote:

> 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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