'Nimbus Roman No9 L' font missing in Writer

[laspic]

Hello,

On a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04, LIbre Office does not recognise this very common font : “Nimbus Roman No9 L”.
To be more precise, my old documents composed with it are correctly displayed (LO doesn’t replace the font with another one), but I cannot choose it in the drop menu, neither use it to set a new style.

• I have checked that this font is present on my hard drive (in /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfont/).
• I have checked that other applications manage to use it.
• I have rebuilt the font cache with ‘fc-cache -f -v’.
• I have deleted all my user configuration folder ‘~/.config/libreoffice’.
• I have tried with 5.3 and 5.4 branch of LO (official repositories).

Nothing change. What I can do more ? What do I miss ?
Thank you very much for any help.

[RGB-es]

LibreOffice dropped support for Type-1 fonts some time ago (maybe on 5.0?) and that’s why you are not seeing it. You need to either convert the .pfb fonts to OpenType or switch to another font. I recommend the second option.

The best “times” font I know is Libertinus:

GitHub - alerque/libertinus: The Libertinus font family

[laspic]

This may explains why even a .ttf version (found on the web) of this font is not perfectly recognised. I’m totally depressed about this news… Nimbus was THE font, on all fronts…
However, I must admit the alternative you suggest is quite good as well. Its proportions specifically are harmonious (and very close from Nimbus’ ones). Thanks a lot for your rapid and precise answer !

[RGB-es]

Perhaps a more closer fit for Nimbus Roman No9 L is TeX Gyre Termes:

http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/termes

It’s based on URW Nimbus Roman, it’s free and it’s on OpenType format As you use Linux, probably it’s already installed on your system. If not, it’s available as a TeX Live package on the TeX Gyre collection.

[laspic]

Indeed. One more good suggestion !