Getting WingDing2 fonts working on fedora/centos
[ link: wingdings | tags: linux fonts | updated: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:07:47 -0400 ]
We were trying to convert some documents to PDFs with LibreOffice and noticed that we kept getting funky rectangle characters instead of "real" characters in some places. It was determined that it was a funky microsoft font called "wingdings 2" that was needed to make the character show up correctly.
First off, Its the WINGDNG2.ttf file that you need to find. It seems you can download it from here and place it in a directory under the /usr/share/fonts directory. I created a folder called /usr/share/fonts/symbol and put the file in there. Run the fc-list command and see if your system is picking it up.
[dirtbag@server1a ~]$fc-list | grep -i WINGDING
/usr/share/fonts/symbol/WINGDNG2.ttf: Wingdings 2:style=Regular,normal,Standard,Normaali,Normale,Standaard
So that looks good and now LibreOffice can use it!
-db
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