I have just taken a look to my old RedHat8 box. Now I have no doubt that there's something broken regarding OpenOffice. In RedHat8 al the ui fits perfectly, but in my Gentoo box, the font used by the interface is rather ugly, greater than the one in RedHat, the buttons, menus, rulers, etc are extremely big (I guess this is bacause of the font used in the ui), and I *cannot* see system fonts !!!!
Could you please give me the bug ID? Maybe if a add some comments they will speed up things.
By the way, the font used by mozilla when composing messeges here in Gentoo is also different (nad uglier) than the one used in RedHat, so maybe the problem is related with X, the font server, or anything else like that...
Regards Jose
William Kenworthy wrote:
I suspect something between gentoo and OO fontwise is very broken. Some wondows fonts I have been using with OO for around a year (inc mandrake and OO) do not work right with 1.02, but are fine with 1.01 (added with the spadmin utility) I get presentations with no text in some views, tabs with no text etc, very poor menu appearance, some settings in the OO options lose the menu text (micro sized when anti-alias is deselected) There is a font guide on the OO website, but it does not fix these problems. deselecting all my fonts has given me a partial OO back, but without good fonts its a lame duck!
In the meantime, I am recompiling the older version (as a package this time!), but have two systems with this problem to fix, a third I was just getting around to upgrading has 1.01 and works fine. I filed a bug with OO, but they are very slow on the bug side.
BillK
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 04:11, 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?
From the OpenOffice web:
To install fonts for all OpenOffice.org applications it is sufficient that they can be found in the filesystem. OpenOffice.org searches the following directories for fonts:
Solaris Linux
1 The directories /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 and /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/sun The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
2 Locale dependend directories found in the file /usr/openwin/lib/locale/"your_locale"/OWfontpath The output of the command /usr/sbin/chkfontpath or chkfontpath
3 The fontpath as returned by XGetFontPath() Same as Solaris
4 Directories given by the environment variable SAL_FONTPATH_PRIVATE, usually this variable is set by the soffice script to "openoffice_dir"/share/fonts/truetype Same as Solaris
There's no chkfontpath command in gentoo, so I think OpenOffice should get the fon list from XGetFontPath(). Anybody knows of any bug related to this?
Regards Jose
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