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 Gründel found out what to do Show archive.org snapshot .
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 16:22)