How do I incorporate my own fonts into LibreOffice?

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Hello again. I use some fonts that are not in LibreOffice. How do I incorporate them into LibreOffice? I’m coming from Linux Mint and in that distro I create a hidden folder (.fonts) and I copy the fonts I need into it and with this they are incorporated. On the other hand, in Manjaro I have no idea how to do it. I look forward to your answers.

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Did you try to do it the same way? Or putting them in ~/.local/share/fonts/?

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It works the same but ~/.fonts is depreciated
~/.local/share/fonts/
is used instead - but the “old” method will probably still work

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It probably depends on which desktop you’re using.
For Plasma, open up systemsettings and navigate to “Font Management” From there you can use the “Install from file” button to import font files which should subsequently be available to every application. You may need to log out and back in again (I’m not sure).

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I use the Gnome desktop.

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Do I have to create a .fonts folder?

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yes - if it does not yet exist
as stated:

but who knows for how long

so, put your fonts in that directory (which you might also first need to create)

Look at the link I provided.

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the address you told me, I put it in the terminal and how do I incorporate the sources?

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I’m going to get on my computer and try it on the folder. I’ll let you know.

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What??

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~/.fonts is deprecated, also. :slight_smile:

@Norge

The correct directory for your fonts has already been mentioned by both @Nachlese and @omano …

…but, I’m not sure the message was received.

Create the directory (if it doesn’t already exist):

mkdir ~/.local/share/fonts

Place any font files you have (.ttf or .otf for example) into that folder. Reboot for good measure. The fonts should then appear in LibreOffice as expected.

Note 1: If the fonts you have are packaged (in .zip files, for example) you will need to extract those before placing the font files into the directory.

Note 2: It may also be worth searching for installable font packages in the Manjaro repositories; or, even the AUR (unsupported).

I hope this helps. Cheers.

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Font-manager is also a nice program to preview the fonts, and there is a button “install” in it which copies the font to the folder mentioned.

Also, after you are done, you can rebuild the font cache for good measure

fc-cache -f -v
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Thank you.

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Topic title updated to be clear and concise about the actual issue.

Please see:

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