On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 20:36 -0400, Matt Needles wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 11:45 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> > Andy Pepperdine wrote:
> > > AIUI OOo shows only those fonts that are available for both display and 
> > > printing. The X11 font directories define those for display, the printing 
> > > fonts are elsewhere. I had a similar problem a couple of years ago. But 
> > > an 
> > > update to the system (Suse) seemed to automatically fix it so I did not 
> > > pursue the matter to discover exactly where they all were and how to 
> > > configure cups and printers to get the fonts.
> > 
> > On a current desktop the easiest way for a user to install fonts and 
> > make them available for both display and print is to create a directory 
> > named ".fonts" in his home directory and copy there the font files, no 
> > need to touch X11 configuration at all.
> > The copy of OOo which I have installed on my computer does not need 
> > spadmin or something else to access those fonts.
> > 
> Okay, Nicu, but how can I do a similar thing so the fonts are available
> to all users on the same machine, not just the one who installed them?
> 

How about opening up <path_TO>/openoffice.org2/share/fonts so that you
can use File > Wizards > Install fonts from the web into that directory?

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