On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 04:42:49 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 12 June 2005 02:13, Raveendran Subbiah wrote: >>Dear Sir, >> >>Recently I have downloaded OpenOffice.org1.1.4 Tamil software and >> Installed in my PC. My PC's configuration is Pentium(r)Processor, 96MB >> RAM, 32 bit virtual memory. After openong OpenOffice.org1.1.4, the tool >> bars and menus are not opening with TAMIL, but with some squares instead >> of characters. Before this software no Tamil software is installed. >> Please give me some suggestions to overcome this problem and give clear >> instructions. >> >>Thanking You. >> >>Regards, >>S.Raveendran > > This sounds as if the Tamil fonts you have installed aren't installed in a > location that 1.1.4 knows about. > > I'm english only here, and so far, OOo has been able to use all the extra > fonts I've installed, in /root/.fonts, and they include some very nice > cursive styles. But then this old fart runs as root, with at least 2 > iptables based firewalls between my keyboard and the dsl modem. > > A side comment here. There seems to be a favorite place each application > wants for its font storage. This isn't conducive IMO to haveing a > smoothly functioning install. This isn't finger pointing at OOo in > particular, but to apps that have their favorite fonts in general. I > disagree heartily with the /home/.fonts location for special fonts when in > a multiuser environment. Such fonts should IMO be available for all > users.
For the record, OOo will use system fonts plus whatever custom fonts you install for OOo use. There could be another problem, does Windows recognize Tamil as a valid language. I ask because OOo supports languages that Windows does not and in order to get Windows to accept these languages there are some installation tweaks that are needed. See 110n project. -- Documentation Co-lead "Dinna meddle wi' things ye ken nuthin' aboot!" J.H. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
