Hi all! This is my first post here, so hi to all, congratulations and many thanks for your work.
Now I follow with the problem I have with TrueType fonts. I have read the archives of this mailing list and googled a little. I found many posts related and some helped me quite a lot, but still I have some trouble. Here is the description: 0) Background. This is to tell you how I set up some stuff, maybe you should not skip it... I just installed debian, and these are my first steps on this distro. I have previously used red hat, so the change was big ;-) Install: I installed the basic packages plus some other stuff. One of my concerns was to get nice fonts to the desktop, so I got the ttf from windows, according to this: http://www.linux-sottises.net/howto-en/mini/FDU/ It improved, but some fonts did not render as nice as I expected, they were still ugly, but I convinced myself they looked better ;-) I then searched a little bit more and I did what's told in this article: http://theregus.com/content/4/26770.html Which is basically compiling freetype defining some macros that are not defined by default, so it renders better fonts. What I got is a new freetype lib: "libfreetype7" (major soname 7, for the lib). I also kept the "old" version libfreetype6 which comes with debian woody 3r1, the readme says it is ok to have both without namespace conflicts... and I have not run into trouble. The results were greatly better, much much better. I can see all fonts well rendered with "font selector", and I also get antialias. That's very good! It really made a difference. 1) Next I installed oo.org with this settings in sources.list for apt-get deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free deb-src http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free I didn't seem to have a problem to install it... it went well. I've got openoffice.org. $ dpkg --list "*openoffice*" (...) pn libming-fonts- <none> un openoffice <none> ii openoffice.org 1.0.2-0.bunk ii openoffice.org 1.0.2-0.bunk ii openoffice.org 1.0.2-2+1 (...) ii openoffice.org 1.0.2-0.bunk (...) 2) Now I start openoffice write as a normal user, it asks for my address book etc... it goes well. The second start, though, gives me a problem. As I have read in other posts, fonts are set to 0 size... getting the very same thing you can see in this screen shot from bugreport #1872: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=581&file=oo.jpg I read that some windows fonts give problems, namely a specific font: "tahoma", so I take it away from the directory it was, and I redo the "fonts.dir" and "fonts.scale". I ran deforma also. After that, I can see the menus from openoffice well, but I can not see the true type fonts. 3) Although I see the menus, I seem to have problems with truetype fonts, since I can not see them in the fonts menu, I see there's a font there, but I get a blank line instead, the rest of the fonts are seen well. I can select the true type fonts and write, but they don't get displayed on the screen. The rest are well displayed also when I type. And that's basicaly the problem. So I read more in the mailing lists: 4) According to some posts, I could have problems with my new libfreetype, since oo's binaries are linked against it. I am no expert, so I don't really know that for sure, the post I read is this one: http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2003/debian-openoffice-200303/msg00009.html I checked /usr/lib for freeetype libs: libfreetype.a libfreetype.la libfreetype.so -> libfreetype.so.6.1.0 libfreetype.so.6 -> libfreetype.so.6.3.0 libfreetype.so.6.1.0 libfreetype.so.6.3.0 (<- this is the one I compiled, shouldn't it be 7?) also $ dpkg --list "freetype*" shows: (...) ii libfreetype6 2.0.9-1 (...) So it is the one mentioned in the post, but I have the new one also, and I don't really know what happens here when oo is loaded and linked to the libs. Finally: 5) So briefing the first time _worked_ "well" (or I though so)... second time gives me problems. Now if I create a new user, from the first time I see the menus but no truetype fonts. _BUT_ the strangest thing is this one: it _works_ if i run oo as root (God forgive me for running as root), the fonts are displayed well in any case, and I get antialiased fonts... So, I don't think it is a linkage problem, but rather a priviledges or some configuration files... but here I don't know what to touch or do, and if you have suggestions, they'll be more than welcome! If you need more info (even more? ;-) I can provide it. I believe this will be hardly reproductable for you, developers... /Josep P.S.: I noticed that a new created user gets a menu entry "Open Office", while the old one gets the differents office applications spreaded into different menus "Editors", "Graphics"... the root user has a menu entry "Open Office".
