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Make Type 1 fonts (.pfb/.pfm) appear in OpenOffice on Ubuntu Linux

Henning Koch
October 25, 2011Software engineer at makandra GmbH

type1fm is no longer available in Ubuntu sources. Also LibreOffice 5.3 has dropped support for Type 1 fonts entirely.

When you install Type 1 fonts (like makandra's corporate typeface), they won't show up in OpenOffice. OpenOffice requires some additional files to process them. Stefan GrĂ¼ndel found out what to do Show archive.org snapshot .

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There is a tool that can produce the missing files:

sudo apt-get install t1lib-bin

Now you can create .afm files:

cd ~/.fonts
type1afm *.pfb

Restart OpenOffice and the fonts should show up.

Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2011-10-25 18:22)