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Little me
Asked: 2016-10-04 23:46:33 +0800 CST

"Installing fonts on request isn't supported" Error message

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I received the following error message; not sure what caused it, but it possibly followed opening LibreCalc's Cell Formatting options box, with Ctrl + 1.

Title: "Installing fonts on request isn't supported"
Message: "Currently auto-detection and installation of missing fonts is not supported"

Web showed no results for this error. Should I go to ask.LibreOffice.org?

Thx

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2 Answers

  1. This looks like a document that was created with Windows and the fonts are not installed. Try installing the MS-Corefonts:

    sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

    That should fix your problem.

    There are meta-packages for restricted extras, like codecs and fonts. This depends on your desktop-environment. Choose one of them.

    sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras   # Gnome based
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-restricted-extras  # KDE
sudo apt-get install lubuntu-restricted-extras  # LXDE
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-restricted-extras  # XFCE
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  2. Maybe I found a solution:

    As I had had those ms-corefonts installed before, they couldn't be the cause of the error message.

    I concluded the cause must have been me having deinstalled all Asian fonts; I did not want to reinstall them with those meta-packages.

    Here's what I did - and I haven't seen the message since:

    In LibreOffice, go to

    • -> Tools
    • -> Options
    • -> Language Settings
    • -> Languages

    Under "Default Languages for Documents" I had unticked the boxes for "Asian" and "Complex Text Layout" before,

    • -> so I ticked them now
    • -> both settings hold scrollable lists of languages:
    • -> I selected the top entries: [None]

    clicked OK & that's it!

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