Hi Christof,
Thanks a whole lot for your help. You have made my Solaris desktop much easier
to work with now. First time I was able to get any help.
Since this issue is important enough, I want to briefly comment on your reply
in-line:
(1) > the best way to solve StarOffice problems is probably
> to post them into
> an openoffice.org mailing list (such as
> dev at gsl.openoffice.org).
I have submitted the same comment/complaint to your above-listed address (&
cc'd to you). Honestly, I don't expect to hear anything from them.
(2) > what is sans in your configuration? there is probably
> a broken font in
> this alias.
>
I didn't change anything to the sans config; everything is from the default.
The pertinent portion of the /etc/fonts/font.conf file relating to
sans/sans-serif is pasted below:
<!--
Sans-serif faces
-->
<alias>
<family>Arial</family>
<family>DejaVu Sans</family>
<family>Bitstream Vera Sans</family>
<family>Helvetica</family>
<family>Arial</family>
<family>Verdana</family>
<family>Albany AMT</family>
<family>Nimbus Sans L</family>
<family>Luxi Sans</family>
<family>HG-PGothicB-Sun</family>
<family>HG-GothicB-Sun</family>
<family>FZSongTi</family>
<family>FZMingTi</family>
<family>KacstQurn</family>
<family>SunDotum</family>
<family>AR PL KaitiM GB</family>
<family>AR PL KaitiM Big5</family>
<family>?? ????</family>
<family>Baekmuk Dotum</family>
<family>SimSun</family>
<family>FreeSans</family>
<default><family>sans-serif</family></default>
</alias>
Do you see anything there that might have caused the problem?
(3) > > Is there any way to specify Application font only
> for StarOffice or
> > OpenOffice.org? Thanks.
>
> go to "Tools -> Options -> StarOffice -> View",
> Uncheck "Use system font
> for user interface".
>
> That way StarOffice will use the fonts specified in
> share/registry/data/org/openoffice/VCL.xcu, from the
> section UI_SANS.
> You can add your preferred font there. In case you
> are not using the
> English version you need to find your language in the
> list, search for
> oor:name="ja" for example for Japanese. Again you
> need to get the
> UI_SANS section.
>
> An alternative popular trick is to override "Andale
> Sans UI" in "Tools
> -> Options -> StarOffice -> Fonts". Check "Apply
> replacement table",
> Fill in "Andale Sans UI" into "Font" and "FZMingTi"
> into "Replace with".
> Click on the green Checkmark and then "Screen only"
> in the list. Please
> note that "Andale Sans UI" does not need to exist on
> your system. It's
> just the first entry in the VCL.xcu mentioned above.
>
I used the second approach, and now the garbling problem is solved. However,
as I mentioned in my original post, this also caused the English fonts to look
ugly. But at least it is now limited to StarOffice/OpenOffice.org .
(4) > Of course you can also make your life easier by using
> StarSuite instead
> of StarOffice.
>
As I mentioned in separate threads, the same problem was observed in StarSuite.
I have been gawking about this issue in this forum for probably more than half
a dozen times. However, again, I think many will not argue with me that the
OpenOffice.org family of office suites are an integral part of a Solaris
desktop. I have always been wondering whether I am the only person on earth
who is using StarOffice/StarSuite/OpenOffice.org to create formatted
Chinese-languaged documents on Solaris Express. If so, I am really going to be
royally pissed. :-(
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