no courier font in Ubuntu 20.04
by jon Elson from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5PXW5)
I have a bunch of gnumeric spreadsheets that call for the courier font.
These display as blocks with hex numbers in them. I have tried to add a Courier truetype font. Now, in gnome-font-viewer, it shows up properly, but font-manager shows it as the blocks. In gnumeric, if I load the old spreadsheet, then the courier text shows up as blocks. If I select a cell and click on the font button, it shows the font type and size, and the sample text is blocks. If I select a different font, and then change back to courier, the sample text in the font dialog box (the quick brown fox...) shows properly, but it doesn't fix the spreadsheet cell. Editing all the spreadsheets to change all courier fonts to courier new would be tedious.
It would be nice to fix the fonts or be able to properly install a legacy courier font file. I TRIED the latter, but it doesn't see to work. But, gnome-font-viewer shows 3 instances of courier, all display properly in that app.
OS is Ubuntu 20.04, gnumeric is 1.12.46.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Jon
These display as blocks with hex numbers in them. I have tried to add a Courier truetype font. Now, in gnome-font-viewer, it shows up properly, but font-manager shows it as the blocks. In gnumeric, if I load the old spreadsheet, then the courier text shows up as blocks. If I select a cell and click on the font button, it shows the font type and size, and the sample text is blocks. If I select a different font, and then change back to courier, the sample text in the font dialog box (the quick brown fox...) shows properly, but it doesn't fix the spreadsheet cell. Editing all the spreadsheets to change all courier fonts to courier new would be tedious.
It would be nice to fix the fonts or be able to properly install a legacy courier font file. I TRIED the latter, but it doesn't see to work. But, gnome-font-viewer shows 3 instances of courier, all display properly in that app.
OS is Ubuntu 20.04, gnumeric is 1.12.46.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Jon