Ubuntu – WPS-Office equation editor

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I have recently installed WPS-office on my Ubuntu 16.04 and I have a few problems. The first problem is that when I start any of the WPS-office programs it gives me a error saying that "Some formula symbols might not be displayed correctly due to missing fonts Symbol, Wingdings, Wingdings 2, Wingdings 3, MT Extra." I tried to download the fonts and install them but it didn't work. How do I solve this?

When I tried to install the fonts, I first downloaded the .deb file from the WPS site, thereafter I ran and tried to install it using Software Center.

My second issue is how do I get equation editor similar to the one in MS Office in WPS-Office or in Ubuntu in general, is this even possible?
Your help will be appreciated. Thankd

Best Answer

For the first issue you need a set of fonts for WPS and this should be dropped into the /usr/share/fonts folder for system wide access.

Now I have created a git repo with these fonts download it from here and add it like this:

  1. download fonts from here
  2. create a folder sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/kingsoft
  3. copy the contents of that download to folder in (2)
  4. run sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /usr/share/fonts/kingsoft
  5. run sudo chmod -R o+rw,g+rw /usr/share/fonts/kingsoft or leave as is if it has read and write permissions for owner (you)
  6. run sudo fc-cache -vfs

For the second issue. You could try this qalculate:

Install: sudo apt-get install qalculate

Qalculator resource: https://www.maketecheasier.com/qalculate-powerful-calculator-for-linux/

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