UNSOLVED Adding fonts to NextCloud + Collabora

[SirFiChi]

Hey folks,

is there a way to add some fonts to the nextcloud installation, so we can use them with collabora documents?
It's a very uncomfortable workflow to download all files and to correct the layout when the documents have to be printed or converted as pdf files.

Thanks for your help

Floh K.

[girish]

@SirFiChi If you have a list of missing fonts, we can add it to the collabora package.

[murgero]

@girish I think a better option would be to move, then symlink the fonts dir in the package so it can be modified freely.

in the Dockerfile file, just add this somewhere:

mv /usr/share/fonts/ /app/data/fonts/
ln -s /app/data/fonts /usr/share/fonts

Then users will be able to add their fonts as needed

[girish]

@murgero I don't mind doing that as well. I need to look closely into how collabora works though. I wonder if it relies on client/browser fonts or fonts on the server side. Because currently the docker image basically has no fonts installed and somehow it seems to mostly work.

[girish]

There's some instructions here - https://help.nextcloud.com/t/installing-new-fonts-in-collabora/22758/3 . Maybe @nebulon has an idea.

[murgero]

@girish If it's anything like openoffice, like I believe it is - it's the server's font dir, not the clients.

[SirFiChi]

I also found this site and tried to write into /usr/share/fonts/truetype/, but as you know, the docker-containers are ro.
The solution of @murgero sounds great.

I think about another solution so you can add fonts directly in the nextcloud.
What about adding a dircetory there:
/app/data/admin/files/Fonts

So the admin can add fonts.
But we need a chown, chmod and a trigger for fc-cache?

[girish]

Opened https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/collabora-app/-/issues/5 to investigate further

[sk93]

Any updates on this topic?

[nebulon]

@sk93 thanks for bringing this up again. By now we are in contact with the Collabora team for providing also a package of their production suite. I assume we will tackle this font issue with them then for both packages.

[sk93]

@nebulon nice, thanks for the update! Is there any eta planned?

[nebulon]

@sk93 no eta yet, but regarding the font issue, I will bring this up as soon as we can talk directly to their tech support to figure a good and future proof way to deal with this.

[avatar1024]

@nebulon said in Adding fonts to NextCloud + Collabora:

By now we are in contact with the Collabora team for providing also a package of their production suite.

That sounds brilliant!