Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:27:50 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> For some documents that were apparently prepared with a proprietary >> application for users of a proprietary OS, some characters (mainly >> greek letters in mathematics) are not correctly displayed in >> openoffice.org. I tried both lenny's and backport's 3.0. >> >> FWIW the document _prints_ fine from OO.o 3.0. >> >> On screen, however, greek fonts are replaced by upright or slanted >> rectangles. >> >> Any hints, what's wrong? > > I _suspect_ that the 'Symbol' font has been used for the Greek > characters. (Could you check that?)
You are right! > And the Symbol font is not installed by default. It's not in OO.o's > font drop-down list, right? It's not in msttcorefonts either. You are right! > So, you would have to get symbol.ttf from some Windows installation, > and install it just by putting it into /usr/local/share/fonts or into > ~/.fonts . Some searching on my system and with apt-file, dpkg -S, etc. revealed that the package xfonts-mathml has some files that look relevant: $ apt-file search Symbol\. |grep font [...] xfonts-mathml: /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/Symbol.afm xfonts-mathml: /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/Symbol.pfb xfonts-mathml: /usr/share/fonts/type1/mathml/Symbol.afm xfonts-mathml: /usr/share/fonts/type1/mathml/Symbol.pfb [...] Installing xfonts-mathml fixed it. Thanks for your help! Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org