I had OpenOffice installed in RedHat and I just needed to add the path containing the fonts to the path list of the X font server. Is this a behaviour provided only by RedHat, or are we missing anything here?
OpenOffice documentation (http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html#5) suggest this approach (adding fonts through spadmin) only in the case you want to use the fonts only in OpenOffice. It clearly states that it would suffice to add the fonts to a directory controlled by the X font server for OpenOffice to be able to access them:
"Most home user will run their XServer locally. They only need to add the fonts to the local fontpath."
Maybe something broken with installation in Gentoo?
By the way, I've copied chkfontpath from my old RedHat box, it works perfectly, but OpenOffice still doesn't show the fonts.
Thank you, regards Jose
P.M. Wright wrote:
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 15:11, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:
Hello,
I installed OpenOffice (the bin package, after waiting for the whole evening to get it compiled and not finishing) but it seems I can't use the system fonts in it. I have xfs running, and a modified configuration file, with some added fonts. I'm able to access this fonts in my desktop preferences, but they don't show in OpenOffice. Anybody has experienced this?
use the printer administration program to install fonts (you can choose to actually copy the fonts to the openoffice font directory, or just create a symbolic link to them)
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