Re: [newbie] Openoffice fonts problem
Anne, none of the two works for me, unfortunately. I **STILL** have no menu labels in OO. /Stefano Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 4:35 am, Mohammed Sameer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have a small problem with openoffice "mandrake 9.0 RPM" When i run openoffice i don't see any menu labels, the menubar is empty, no fonts are available in the whole app. the fonts preview dropdown list is empty, there is only a Times font, and a bunch of zapf* fonts i searched googlebut their *NIX font troubleshooting guide didn't help This has come up before. Although I have no experience of the problem, I have seen two lots of answers to this. 1) If you have installed Freetype2 from any version other than the install cds you will need to revert. 2) Quote: Go to /etc/openoffice. Edit with vim or whichother editor you like openoffice.conf and in the place UI_FONT="AUTO" replace it with "Arial" or whichother font you think is usable. That might help. Unquote HTH Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [newbie] Openoffice fonts problem
I had this same problem with LM 8.2 with the tarball off openoffice.org... the solution was to uninstall abiword... Abiword installs certain fonts that seem to conflict with OpenOffice. I suggest trying that if you have abiword installed. Greetings Ralph On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:24:35 +0100 Stefano Pogliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne, none of the two works for me, unfortunately. I **STILL** have no menu labels in OO. /Stefano Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 4:35 am, Mohammed Sameer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have a small problem with openoffice mandrake 9.0 RPM When i run openoffice i don't see any menu labels, the menubar is empty, nofonts are available in the whole app. the fonts preview dropdown list isempty, there is only a Times font, and a bunch of zapf* fonts i searchedgooglebut their *NIX font troubleshooting guide didn't help This has come up before. Although I have no experience of the problem, I have seen two lots of answers to this. 1) If you have installed Freetype2 from any version other than the install cds you will need to revert. 2) Quote: Go to /etc/openoffice. Edit with vim or whichother editor you like openoffice.conf and in the place UI_FONT=AUTO replace it with Arial or whichother font you think is usable. That might help. Unquote HTH Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them. -- George H. W. Bush Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Openoffice fonts problem
Ralph, abiword is not installed on my system. Thanks anyway. /stefano Ralph Slooten wrote: I had this same problem with LM 8.2 with the tarball off openoffice.org... the solution was to uninstall abiword... Abiword installs certain fonts that seem to conflict with OpenOffice. I suggest trying that if you have abiword installed. Greetings Ralph On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:24:35 +0100 Stefano Pogliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne, none of the two works for me, unfortunately. I **STILL** have no menu labels in OO. /Stefano Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 4:35 am, Mohammed Sameer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have a small problem with openoffice "mandrake 9.0 RPM" When i run openoffice i don't see any menu labels, the menubar is empty, nofonts are available in the whole app. the fonts preview dropdown list isempty, there is only a Times font, and a bunch of zapf* fonts i searchedgooglebut their *NIX font troubleshooting guide didn't help This has come up before. Although I have no experience of the problem, I have seen two lots of answers to this. 1) If you have installed Freetype2 from any version other than the install cds you will need to revert. 2) Quote: Go to /etc/openoffice. Edit with vim or whichother editor you like openoffice.conf and in the place UI_FONT="AUTO" replace it with "Arial" or whichother font you think is usable. That might help. Unquote HTH Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [newbie] Openoffice fonts problem
Stefano I have had the same problem. The only way I could find was to: Uninstall OpenOffice.org and libraries. I then installed the OpenOffice.org tar.gz file from their site. Yeah...I know it is a 70MB download, I had a copy on a pc mag cover cd, so I was lucky. It now runs fine and everything seems to work ok. Good luck with this... Michael Biddulph Brisbane Australia On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:16 pm, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Ralph, abiword is not installed on my system. Thanks anyway. /stefano Ralph Slooten wrote: I had this same problem with LM 8.2 with the tarball off openoffice.org... the solution was to uninstall abiword... Abiword installs certain fonts that seem to conflict with OpenOffice. I suggest trying that if you have abiword installed. Greetings Ralph On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:24:35 +0100 Stefano Pogliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne, none of the two works for me, unfortunately. I **STILL** have no menu labels in OO. /Stefano Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 4:35 am, Mohammed Sameer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have a small problem with openoffice mandrake 9.0 RPM When i run openoffice i don't see any menu labels, the menubar is empty, nofonts are available in the whole app. the fonts preview dropdown list isempty, there is only a Times font, and a bunch of zapf* fonts i searchedgooglebut their *NIX font troubleshooting guide didn't help This has come up before. Although I have no experience of the problem, I have seen two lots of answers to this. 1) If you have installed Freetype2 from any version other than the install cds you will need to revert. 2) Quote: Go to /etc/openoffice. Edit with vim or whichother editor you like openoffice.conf and in the place UI_FONT=AUTO replace it with Arial or whichother font you think is usable. That might help. Unquote HTH Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Openoffice fonts problem
Michael, thanks for the tip. Do you have the exact names of the RPMs to remove ? I will give a try Thanks /stefano Michael Biddulph wrote: Stefano I have had the same problem. The only way I could find was to: Uninstall OpenOffice.org and libraries. I then installed the OpenOffice.org tar.gz file from their site. Yeah...I know it is a 70MB download, I had a copy on a pc mag cover cd, so I was lucky. It now runs fine and everything seems to work ok. Good luck with this... Michael Biddulph Brisbane Australia On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:16 pm, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Ralph, abiword is not installed on my system. Thanks anyway. /stefano Ralph Slooten wrote: I had this same problem with LM 8.2 with the tarball off openoffice.org... the solution was to uninstall abiword... Abiword installs certain fonts that seem to conflict with OpenOffice. I suggest trying that if you have abiword installed. Greetings Ralph On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:24:35 +0100 Stefano Pogliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne, none of the two works for me, unfortunately. I **STILL** have no menu labels in OO. /Stefano Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 4:35 am, Mohammed Sameer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have a small problem with openoffice "mandrake 9.0 RPM" When i run openoffice i don't see any menu labels, the menubar is empty, nofonts are available in the whole app. the fonts preview dropdown list isempty, there is only a Times font, and a bunch of zapf* fonts i searchedgooglebut their *NIX font troubleshooting guide didn't help This has come up before. Although I have no experience of the problem, I have seen two lots of answers to this. 1) If you have installed Freetype2 from any version other than the install cds you will need to revert. 2) Quote: Go to /etc/openoffice. Edit with vim or whichother editor you like openoffice.conf and in the place UI_FONT="AUTO" replace it with "Arial" or whichother font you think is usable. That might help. Unquote HTH Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [newbie] Openoffice fonts problem
On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 12:24 pm, Michael Biddulph wrote: Stefano I have had the same problem. The only way I could find was to: Uninstall OpenOffice.org and libraries. I then installed the OpenOffice.org tar.gz file from their site. Yeah...I know it is a 70MB download, I had a copy on a pc mag cover cd, so I was lucky. It now runs fine and everything seems to work ok. Good luck with this... Michael Biddulph Brisbane Australia Stefano - which Mandrake distro are you using? Was your OO.o installed from the distro discs? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Openoffice fonts problem
Anne, I am using 9.0. OO was installed from the distro CDs. But I installed also the textar packages /stefano Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 12:24 pm, Michael Biddulph wrote: Stefano I have had the same problem. The only way I could find was to: Uninstall OpenOffice.org and libraries. I then installed the OpenOffice.org tar.gz file from their site. Yeah...I know it is a 70MB download, I had a copy on a pc mag cover cd, so I was lucky. It now runs fine and everything seems to work ok. Good luck with this... Michael Biddulph Brisbane Australia Stefano - which Mandrake distro are you using? Was your OO.o installed from the distro discs? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [newbie] Openoffice fonts problem
On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 1:43 pm, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Anne, I am using 9.0. OO was installed from the distro CDs. But I installed also the textar packages Could it be that it is seeing something of both and getting confused? I think it would be wise to uninstall and start again. My OO from 9.0 distro discs has no problem. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Openoffice fonts problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have a small problem with openoffice mandrake 9.0 RPM When i run openoffice i don't see any menu labels, the menubar is empty, no fonts are available in the whole app. the fonts preview dropdown list is empty, there is only a Times font, and a bunch of zapf* fonts i searched googlebut their *NIX font troubleshooting guide didn't help What can i do ? Thanks for suggestions - - -- - - - - -- Katoob Main Developer Linux registered user # 224950 ICQ # 58475622 FIRST make it run, THEN make it run fast Brian Kernighan. - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ER3Ny2aOKaP9DfcRAu58AKCnfZ5ldMS+hzXrWZQd+RVsSEc/VwCgheFH iDRVkpFwevwVRpRl1UgPsQ4= =n1eT - -END PGP SIGNATURE- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ER55y2aOKaP9DfcRAlNlAKCleuZ4b/Wt3dHB/jqDKGhfKg+FZQCeN/0Z wW+FPCabiI0o31nOxs4RrJ8= =qJ9I -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OpenOffice Fonts
I recently installed OpenOffice from the OpenOffice.Org site. Overall I find it is very satifactory. However, one thing bugged me; the quality of the font display was terrible. Having also installed the Windows verison of OpenOffice on my desktop at work I knew the fonts could look better, so I decided to see what could be done to fix them on Mandrake 8.1. As it turns out, the steps to fix the font display are fairly simple if you have access to a windows installation. There are two parts to process. Part one fixes the font display of the OpenOffice program itself. Part two addresses the fonts udes in OpenOffice Documents. Part One. 1. Copy all the truetype fonts from the Fonts folder in the Windows folder to temporary folder on your Mandrake system. Only copy the files that have a ttf extension. I used a Samba connection to my Windows desktop to copy to the files over to my laptop. If you don't have network you could copy them to a floppy or burn them to a CD. 2. Login as root and run DrakFont. a. Click the ADD fonts button and locate the temporary folder you copied the TrueType fonts to. You should see a list of all the fonts in the FILES window. If you don't see the fonts check to make sure you have selected the correct directory. b. Click the OK button and another window will pop-up listing the fonts. c. Click the Install All button to install all the fonts. 3. Exit out of DrakFont. Part Two. 1. While still logged in as root. Open a terminal session and change to the OpenOffice installation folder. If you used the default location when you installed OpenOffice, it should be in /opt/openoffice1.0. 2. Run spadmin by typing ./spadmin and a printer administration window should appear. Don't forget to include the ./ in front of the file name. 3. Click the Fonts button then the ADD button. 4. In the Source directory box type in the path to same temporary directory where you copied the TrueType fonts to. Or you can use the browse button to browse to the directory. 5. Click the Select All button then the OK button to install the fonts. 6. When the process is complete you should see all the fonts in the window. Click the Close button to exit the font display window then click the close button on the Printer Administration window and you are done. That's it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
