Fonts in Libre Office

[daniel.m.tripp (Dan Tripp)]

I discussed this issue in a post last year, or perhaps even earlier - how much I DETEST the VAST
“cacophany” of hideous fonts for some obscure character set, that the likes of Canonical foist on their users…

e.g. I barely use any of the Libre suite, but, I do use Inkscape often, and I GRINDS MY GEARS when I’m looking for a decent font for a text object in an SVG file I’m editing…

Fonts - they're pretty sh!t in Linux (on Ubuntu anyway) aren't they?

I spend a fair bit of time in and out of Inkscape - it’s one of my favourite OSS apps - it’s about 80% as powerful as CorelDraw (that other 80% is Corel’s mulptiple page document support, and unparalled bitmap tracing to vector), and I can do just about everything I used to do in Corel, in Inkscape… So much so - I probably won’t bother even trying to find a CorelDraw that might work on OS X (probably haven’t done an OS X port since the PowerPC era), and I won’t bother with Adobe Illustrator’s m…

URL to the original script that I plagiarized :

https://www.riksoft.it/wikiriks/linux/remove-foreign-fonts-from-debian-ubuntu

My version of his script has lotsa nasty swear words in the filename, and even more in the shell script!

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Update :

@daniel.m.tripp

it’s about 80% as powerful as CorelDraw (that other 80% is Corel’s mulptiple page document support, and unparalled bitmap tracing to vector)

InkScape is now almost feature-for-feature, on a par with CorelDraw - it can now do mulptiple (sic) page documents since version 1.2…