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Adding fonts to NextCloud + Collabora

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    m-si
    wrote on last edited by m-si
    #17

    I played around and maybe this is a solution to @nebulon at least for the "merge"-situation with new upstream font releases...so what about:

    RUN if [ -d /app/data/fonts/ ]; then \
          rsync -a --update --existing /opt/collaboraoffice/share/fonts/ /app/data/fonts/  \
          && rm -r /opt/collaboraoffice/share/fonts/ \
        else \
          mv /opt/collaboraoffice/share/fonts/ /app/data/fonts/ \
        fi \
        && ln -s /app/data/fonts /opt/collaboraoffice/share/fonts/
    

    With that it checks initaly wether /app/data/fonts/ exists (if not simply moves and symlinks back) and if folder already exits updates only the files that are newer and persists the deletion of font files in /app/data/fonts/ and keep changes of files from upstream (until they are deleted)...

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    • M m-si

      I played around and maybe this is a solution to @nebulon at least for the "merge"-situation with new upstream font releases...so what about:

      RUN if [ -d /app/data/fonts/ ]; then \
            rsync -a --update --existing /opt/collaboraoffice/share/fonts/ /app/data/fonts/  \
            && rm -r /opt/collaboraoffice/share/fonts/ \
          else \
            mv /opt/collaboraoffice/share/fonts/ /app/data/fonts/ \
          fi \
          && ln -s /app/data/fonts /opt/collaboraoffice/share/fonts/
      

      With that it checks initaly wether /app/data/fonts/ exists (if not simply moves and symlinks back) and if folder already exits updates only the files that are newer and persists the deletion of font files in /app/data/fonts/ and keep changes of files from upstream (until they are deleted)...

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      nebulon
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      wrote on last edited by
      #18

      @m-si wouldn't that also copy back your delete fonts on an app restart?

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      • nebulonN nebulon

        @m-si wouldn't that also copy back your delete fonts on an app restart?

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        wrote on last edited by m-si
        #19

        @nebulon no this is prevented by the --existing flag...that's the reason why I initially suggest to move the whole thing and afterwords only update the (still) existing... to get a whole copy of the primary folder one has to delete the font folder in app/data... then there will be again the full copy/move...

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          wrote on last edited by m-si
          #20

          @nebulon Another try hopefully less hackish... According to the solution of rLoutrel found here ... maybe it is sufficient to simply:

          RUN ln -s /app/data/fonts /opt/collaboraoffice/share/fonts/truetype/local
          

          This one won't add /usr/share/fonts/ as extra volume to collabora and we won' have the ability to get rid of the intially installed fonts but should make it at least possible to add custom fonts via /app/data/fonts. So this might be a solution to the initial Question of SirFiChi...

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            Any chance of another look at this please @nebulon — these little things really help with user happiness, and the latest version is well worth the effort for making out go-to online office suite with Nextcloud.

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              #22

              @nebulon I see there is always a lot to do, so maybe it's an idea to mention it again. Do you think we might have a chance to add fonts like that…?

              RUN ln -s /app/data/fonts /opt/collaboraoffice/share/fonts/truetype/local
              
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                nebulon
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                #23

                Thanks for bringing this up again. I have published a new app package which supports adding fonts now. After copying the TTF fonts into the folder, the app has to be restarted as mentioned in https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/collabora/#adding-fonts

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                • nebulonN nebulon

                  Thanks for bringing this up again. I have published a new app package which supports adding fonts now. After copying the TTF fonts into the folder, the app has to be restarted as mentioned in https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/collabora/#adding-fonts

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                  BrutalBirdie
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                  #24

                  @nebulon
                  For some reason all the fonts I added like that show in in Collabora in Nextcloud but are invisible.
                  🤔
                  Ever encountered something like that?

                  Like my work? Consider donating a drink. Cheers!

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                    @nebulon
                    For some reason all the fonts I added like that show in in Collabora in Nextcloud but are invisible.
                    🤔
                    Ever encountered something like that?

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                    nebulon
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                    #25

                    @BrutalBirdie what does invisible mean? Where are they invisible? Does fc-match <fontname> correctly recognize the font in the webterminal?

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                    • nebulonN nebulon

                      @BrutalBirdie what does invisible mean? Where are they invisible? Does fc-match <fontname> correctly recognize the font in the webterminal?

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                      wrote on last edited by BrutalBirdie
                      #26

                      @nebulon
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                      root@7cca863b-c650-4447-9dba-c4653dafe333:/app/code# fc-match "Droid Sans"
                      DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
                      

                      Looks wrong to me...

                      root@7cca863b-c650-4447-9dba-c4653dafe333:/app/code# ls -lah /app/data/
                      total 20K
                      drwxr-xr-x 3 root     root 4.0K Aug 21 21:00 .
                      drwxr-xr-x 1 root     root 4.0K Sep 19 21:01 ..
                      -rw-r--r-- 1 cloudron root 7.0K Oct 10 12:17 coolwsd.xml
                      drwxr-xr-x 6 root     root 4.0K Oct 10 14:00 fonts
                      root@7cca863b-c650-4447-9dba-c4653dafe333:/app/code# ls -lah /app/data/fonts/
                      total 24K
                      drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Oct 10 14:00 .
                      drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Aug 21 21:00 ..
                      drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 10 14:00 DroidSans
                      drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 10 14:00 DroidSerif
                      drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 10 14:00 NunitoSans
                      drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 10 14:00 OpenSans
                      root@7cca863b-c650-4447-9dba-c4653dafe333:/app/code# ls -lah /app/data/fonts/DroidSans/
                      total 96K
                      drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 10 14:00 .
                      drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Oct 10 14:00 ..
                      -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  42K Oct  9 13:47 DroidSans-Bold.ttf
                      -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  41K Oct  9 13:47 DroidSans.ttf
                      
                      root@7cca863b-c650-4447-9dba-c4653dafe333:/app/code# fc-match DroidSans 
                      DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
                      
                      fc-match --all
                      
                      

                      Does also not include the fonts.
                      Also having the .ttf files plain in no sub folder in /app/data/fonts yields the same results.

                      The fonts works tho on the local system.

                      Like my work? Consider donating a drink. Cheers!

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                        #27

                        I tried this just now and I can confirm that the rendering in the actual document is not working. Seems like some upstream bug then, which needs investigation. Unfortunately there are no errors anywhere.

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                          wrote on last edited by m-si
                          #28

                          @BrutalBirdie While playing around to overcome this error. I found an alternative solution. It doesn't fix the collabora CODE font issue mentioned here, but makes it possible to add fonts to a Nextcloud instance hosted via cloudron.

                          It works with Nextclouds' ability to add fonts as remote_fonts therefore do the following:

                          1. Add the desired fonts at https://[YOUR.NEXTCLOUD.DOMAIN]/settings/admin/richdocuments
                          2. Switch to the apps-filemanager of your cloudrons Nextcloud. Create the folder ~/apps/richdocuments/settings
                          3. Find out in which [APP-DATA-DIRECTORY] Nextcloud saves the richdocuments-data inside the directory ~/data (e.g. appdata_ocv42l2jdx7f)
                          4. in the newly created folder, create a file fonts.json (so ~/apps/richdocuments/settings/fonts.json exists) with the content
                          {
                              "kind": "fontconfiguration",
                              "server": "[YOUR.NEXTCLOUD.DOMAIN]",
                              "fonts": [
                                  {
                                      "uri": "https://[YOUR.NEXTCLOUD.DOMAIN]/[APP-DATA-DIRECTORY]/richdocuments/fonts/[FONTNAME-1].ttf"
                                  },
                                  {
                                      "uri": "https://[YOUR.NEXTCLOUD.DOMAIN]/[APP-DATA-DIRECTORY]/richdocuments/fonts/[FONTNAME-2].ttf"
                                  }
                              ]
                          }
                          
                          1. restart the collabora app
                          2. restart the Nextcloud app

                          Additional, remove any font added to the collabora fonts directory...

                          Edit: After trial and erroring even more, I found nextcloud updating the fontlist only if ~/apps/richdocuments/settings/fonts.json is again saved.

                          Edit-2: Unfortunatly after a collabora update nextcloud needs to be restarted again to make the font changes again available…

                          @nebulon maybe this might solve the issue?
                          cheers

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