the fix worked. Thanks very much!!!!
On Nov 11, 2006, at 6:11 AM, Dan Lewis wrote:
On Friday 10 November 2006 02:59 pm, Larry Beam wrote:
I have had Open Office installed on my iMac pc for two months. All
of a sudden, it will not start up. X11 comes up, then the Open
Office startup comes up briefly and then just falls back to Finder
and nothing ever happens. I even installed 2.0.4 and it does the
same thing. It just doesn't run. I am on OS X 10.4.8. Nothing
unusual, but it simply will not start up and run. Baffled.
Larry Beam
First, this is an X11 font problem which Apple has acknowledged and
will fix soon, we hope.
Second, I have copied the text from a previous message which links to
the Issue which OpenOffice.org is using to track this problem and a
link to the forums at Trinity.NeoOffice.org which describes a very
good workaround.
Sorry that X11 caused this problem for you. Please be aware that new
Mac OS X builds will not have this problem (that is 2.1 or higher) as
they will disable the usage of X11 font files.
Copied message text:
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Hi all,
obviously Apple released a X11 update with corrupt "Vera" Fonts.
It is reported, that the FontBook application recognize the font as
"...Dont use this fonts"
But there is a discussion of a workaround:
Bug is reported on OO.org: 71096
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=71096
and the workaround is discussed on the trinity.neooffice.org - list
http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?
name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=3414
[Workaround text included so you don't have to visit the web site
above to find it]
The suggested workaround:
Open the terminal application and type:
sudo mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF.bad
<return>
enter your password
<return>
sudo mv /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/Vera*.ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/
fonts/TTF.bad
<return>
the code will create a new folder "TTF.bad" and will copy all "Vera"
fonts to this folder. This must be done as a user with [corrected by
me] administrator rights (sudo)
Hope this helps.
thanks to Pavel and Patrick
Christopher
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James McKenzie
Mac OS X QA/Test Team Lead
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