Fonts clarification

[tquest1]

I've read the previously answered (How to add fonts to Collabora container #870) re: font volume implementation that has been added to the latest release, but I wanted to know how do we actually go about installing fonts.

I have Nextcloud AIO v4.0.1 installed via a docker-compose stack in Portainer.

I have copied some truetype fonts to the nextcloud_aio_collabora_fonts volume by copying them to the path:
/var/lib/docker/volumes/nextcloud_aio_collabora_fonts/_data .

I can confirm that they are visible inside the nextcloud-aio-collabora container at: /opt/cool/systemplate/tmpfonts , but I don't see the fonts in the office gui.

Are there any other steps required? Also - what is the correct way to remove some of the pre-installed fonts - I'd like to remove the unused 'Noto' font languages as the font drop down is too long with all of the various noto fonts.

[szaimen]

Hi, usually you should be able to upload additional fonts easily from the office admin settings, so no manual copying of the files on the server should be needed. However the last time I tried to upload font files it produced an error which should probably get reported to https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/issues if you can reproduce it.

I'd like to remove the unused 'Noto' font languages as the font drop down is too long with all of the various noto fonts.

This is currently not possible afaik and would be a feature request for either the richdocuments app or the collabora software.

[tquest1]

When uploading files from the Office admin settings - there is no error message for me & the font appears under Available fonts but is not actually available in the app. I had a similar problem with a non-AIO standalone Collabora server & after following the Office settings instructions on the settings page (see below) to add the mentioned URL to the coolwsd.xml everything worked.

Make sure to set this URL: https://my.server.net/apps/richdocuments/settings/fonts.json in the coolwsd.xml file of your Collabora Online server to ensure the added fonts get loaded automatically.

<remote_font_config> <url desc="URL of optional JSON file that lists fonts to be included in Online" type="string" default="">https://my.server.net/apps/richdocuments/settings/fonts.json</url> </remote_font_config>

How can this be done with AIO included Collabora?

[szaimen]

First of all, I still cannot update any font to try out if it works. It just always shows an error: Font format not supported. Can you maybe share a for you working file with me that I could use for testing? Thanks a lot!

Second, even if I set --o:remote_font_config.url=https://mydomain.com/apps/richdocuments/settings/fonts.json via command line as additional value of the docker container, it still shows the warning for me in the office settings. Do you know if this is expected?

[tquest1]

Basically any truetype font that I try works e.g. the attached file.
arial.ttf.zip

Second, even if I set --o:remote_font_config.url=https://mydomain.com/apps/richdocuments/settings/fonts.json via command line as additional value of the docker container, it still shows the warning for me in the office settings. Do you know if this is expected?

How do you actually edit the above value so that I can try it?

[szaimen]

Basically any truetype font that I try works e.g. the attached file.
arial.ttf.zip

thanks. so yeah it doesnt work with that too. No idea why. I always get

[szaimen]

How do you actually edit the above value so that I can try it?

I've created this PR #1663 which will fix it with the next version. I'll let you know once it is available in the beta channel.

[szaimen]

This is now released with v4.1.0 Beta. Testing and feedback is welcome! See https://github.com/nextcloud/all-in-one#how-to-switch-the-channel

[szaimen]

BTW, are the fonts by collabora correctly downloaded automatically to this location? /var/lib/docker/volumes/nextcloud_aio_collabora_fonts/_data

[tquest1]

BTW, are the fonts by collabora correctly downloaded automatically to this location? /var/lib/docker/volumes/nextcloud_aio_collabora_fonts/_data

No, that directory is empty - they are uploaded to the richdocuments app folder which in my case (I have my data in a mounted volume) is:
/mnt/ncdata/appdata_oc5xzk00mgtl/richdocuments/fonts/

I tried copying some fonts to that folder with the right permissions manually to see if they would show up, as uploading the fonts from the gui can only be done one at a time & that is very tedious if you have a lot of fonts. Is there a command that needs to be entered to 'scan' these fonts? I tried restarting the Collabora container & it doesn't work.

[szaimen]

The volume was introduced so that caching of fonts inside the container is possible. The question is now to which directory inside the containers they are uploaded to. Can you check inside the collabora container where they are stored?

[tquest1]

I've entered the Collabora container with: docker exec --user root -it nextcloud-aio-collabora bash & searched for any truetype fonts with find / -name '*.ttf' & I can only see the preinstalled fonts. Let me know if I'm going about this incorrectly - I'm far from an expert!

The only place that I can see the uploaded fonts are in the previously mentioned: /appdata_oc5xzk00mgtl/richdocuments/fonts/ in the Nextcloud data folder. I even did a search in the underlying Proxmox container volume where it is installed & the the results are the same.

[szaimen]

all right, then I might be wrong and they dont get downloaded into the collabora container even not temporarily.

cc @juliushaertl or @nextcloud/office do you know more? :)

[patrick-5546]

@szaimen were you able to resolve the Font format not supported error you were getting? I'm seeing it on my own instance now, which is running v4.4.1.

[szaimen]

Yes, see #1859

[g-work]

Are there any news converning the second part of the question?

Also - what is the correct way to remove some of the pre-installed fonts - I'd like to remove the unused 'Noto' font languages as the font drop down is too long with all of the various noto fonts.

I'm having the same issue since my users complained that the font list is way too long :)

[szaimen]

Sorry I dont know. Probably good to ask this at https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/issues