Too many installed fonts causes firefox + open office word app to not display correct font

[Henryk]

Binary package hint: firefox

I have installed over 6700 different types of font into /usr/share/fonts/downloadedfonts. I need this amount of fonts because I like to experiment. Anyway when I have this large amount of fonts installed when I fire up firefox my font type is not the default serif font that I have configured Ubuntu to use. Firefox uses (I believe) a font from my downloadedfonts folder. This same problem also occurs when viewing a document in openoffice word processor. However if I decide to move that directory /usr/share/fonts/downloadedfonts into ~ the problem is resolved. However I don't want to perform this work around as it would be annoying.

Please don't reply with 'you do not need that amount of fonts'. Well I would respond with no I probably don't but I believe so passionately about Ubuntu that I wanted to inform the wider community.

I could start by adding a 1000 fonts at a time, but I am more interested in finding out the cause.

I look forward to your assistance.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Have you read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FontInstallHowto on how to install your fonts. It tells you to make a symlink to ~/ so they can be used.

see section Kubuntu 5.05 Troubleshooting yes it should work the wiki page just hasnt been updated to name differnet versions.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Please let us know if it still happens after reading and following that guide. symlinking to $HOME is not a workaround seeing as you are installing them manully (maybe not all but most)

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

If this is still an issue please provide a easy to follow testcase so we can try to reproduce this.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!