[clug] openoffice 2.2 (2.2.1) and fonts

[Tomasz Ciolek]

Ok my setup is debian etch + xorg X11 + openoffice from openoffice.org
distro tarball.

Fonts in X work. They are all there, visable and selectable by applications,
INCLUDING openoffice 2.1.0. I did not ever use spadmin to add extra
fonts into openoffice.

It is becoming obvious to me that I need to contact the developers and
query them on this misbehaviour of the product.

Tomasz

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:20:21AM +1000, jim watson wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 07:08 +1000, Tomasz Ciolek wrote:
> > Peter,
> > 
> > thats not what I ment.
> > 
> > What I ment is that while openoffice 2.0 and 2.1 picked up existance of
> > fons installed on my system (helvetica, times, etc.) as part of the xorg 
> > install, while openoffice 2.2.1 does not. As a result I _do not have_ some
> > of the fonts to choose from to set in the default .ott file. 
> > 
> > :(
> > 
> > Of course I could be mistaken and it could be that openoffice 2.0 and
> > 2.1 shipped with those fonts in the install bundle somewhere, but it
> > does not look like it...  
> > 
> > Anyways, thanks for your help.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Tomasz
> > 
> 
> Tomasz,
> 
> do you use e.g a debian distribution package or download from
> www.openoffice.org?
> 
> The upstream pacakge has a command available that will allow some fonts
> to be added: OOo/program/spadmin
> 
> You could try that anyway, but the various distributions might handle
> fonts their own ways so it may be a distributors issue.
> 
> Also there is different desktop integration for kde and gnome, which of
> those do you use? Do the relevant fonts show up in the Desktop -
> Preferences - Fonts list?
> 
> Also there is new a quickstarter - small icon in the top panel - you
> could try and see if that is quit and restart there. 
> 
> jim
> 
> 

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