LibreOffice (Linux) - Calibri is broken

[pythonmegapixel]

I keep being emailed documents in Windows default fonts. My system is dual-boot Windows/Linux Mint, so in order for these documents to render properly (or so I thought) on my Linux system, I simply made copies of all the TTF files in C:\Windows\Fonts on the Windows partition in ~/.fonts on the Linux partition.

 

This works fine, but there is a problem. Calibri is REALLY messed up in LibreOffice. Here's a screenshot demonstrating this:

 

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

[Husky]

I'm not sure if this will fix it, but have you tried installing the Microsoft fonts package for Linux? I believe the package is named "ttf-mscorefonts-installer" on Debian-based distros, so a simply "sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer" should work for you.

[pythonmegapixel]

3 minutes ago, Husky said:

I'm not sure if this will fix it, but have you tried installing the Microsoft fonts package for Linux? I believe the package is named "ttf-mscorefonts-installer" on Debian-based distros, so a simply "sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer" should work for you.

It's already installed.

$ apt list --installed | grep mscorefonts
ttf-mscorefonts-installer/focal,focal,now 3.7ubuntu6 all [installed]

 

[Husky]

1 minute ago, pythonmegapixel said:

It's already installed.

Alright then, instead of copying the Windows font files, have you tried just copying them to your home folder or something and then opening them (it should present an option to "install" the font if on Ubuntu, and Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu so it should work).

 

If that STILL doesn't work, then I did see that there's an option to map the Calibri font to the free replacement called Carlito by using the Tools menu in LibreOffice.

 

And one more option is this: https://askubuntu.com/a/1300747 but I am not sure if this will work either.

 

If after trying all of this Calibri still looks broken, then the last thing I would check are your font rendering settings because maybe a certain rendering setting is incompatible with Calibri specifically (such as the hinting, RGB mode or whatever) and you could change those around to see if it helps. Otherwise, I have no idea what the problem might be.

[Guest]

The font is probably not being recognized or a poor replacement is being substituted.

I would take a look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microsoft_fonts