I suspect something between gentoo and OO fontwise is very broken. Some wondows fonts I have been using with OO for around a year (inc mandrake and OO) do not work right with 1.02, but are fine with 1.01 (added with the spadmin utility) I get presentations with no text in some views, tabs with no text etc, very poor menu appearance, some settings in the OO options lose the menu text (micro sized when anti-alias is deselected) There is a font guide on the OO website, but it does not fix these problems. deselecting all my fonts has given me a partial OO back, but without good fonts its a lame duck!
In the meantime, I am recompiling the older version (as a package this time!), but have two systems with this problem to fix, a third I was just getting around to upgrading has 1.01 and works fine. I filed a bug with OO, but they are very slow on the bug side. BillK On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 04:11, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > Hello, > > I installed OpenOffice (the bin package, after waiting for the whole > evening to get it compiled and not finishing) but it seems I can't use > the system fonts in it. I have xfs running, and a modified configuration > file, with some added fonts. I'm able to access this fonts in my desktop > preferences, but they don't show in OpenOffice. Anybody has experienced > this? > > From the OpenOffice web: > > To install fonts for all OpenOffice.org applications it is sufficient > that they can be found in the filesystem. OpenOffice.org searches the > following directories for fonts: > > Solaris Linux > 1 The directories /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 and > /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/sun The directory > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 > 2 Locale dependend directories found in the file > /usr/openwin/lib/locale/"your_locale"/OWfontpath The output of the > command /usr/sbin/chkfontpath or chkfontpath > 3 The fontpath as returned by XGetFontPath() Same as Solaris > 4 Directories given by the environment variable SAL_FONTPATH_PRIVATE, > usually this variable is set by the soffice script to > "openoffice_dir"/share/fonts/truetype Same as Solaris > > > There's no chkfontpath command in gentoo, so I think OpenOffice > should get the fon list from XGetFontPath(). Anybody knows of any bug > related to this? > > Regards > Jose > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
