Re: Installation of OpenOffice-RC3-Linux in Fedora Core 1

[Omer Zak]

By the way, as far as OpenOffice is concerned, I am Aunt Tilly (or 
rather, Uncle Tom) and hints are only a bit more helpful to me than they 
are to Aunt Tilly.

Diego Iastrubni wrote:

On Saturday 27 March 2004 16:07, Omer Zak wrote:
 

Just tried it.  It tries to display text (both in LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and
LANG=he_IL settings) in Hebrew, and it displays it in rectangles.  How
to tell it to use English interface language just this time, so that
I'll see some text instead of rectangles?
There is a dialog for adding fonts (reachable by random clicking on
buttons), but I don't know what do the buttons mean.  And I don't know
if it adds fonts only for printing or also for displaying.
   

the language is hardcoded into the application.

What to do if I want to work with Hebrew UI after overcoming all 
installation hassles?
- Re-install to read English dialogs.
- Then configure using spadmin.
- Then again install to read the UI in Hebrew.
Will I lose the configuration which I made previously?

try putting some arial font to your ~/.fonts an restart the install.

There is no ~/.fonts in my root directory.
I found the file ~/.fonts.cache-1 in my root directory.  Is this what 
you mean?

about how to add fonts, you will see in spadmin, it's quite trivial.

Not when it displays rectangles instead of text.
Also, I guess that there is some dialog to specify also the path to the 
extra fonts.
What path to specify?
The directory which has the Culmus fonts?  Its parent?  Its grandparent?

RTFM check:
The Web page http://www.openofice.org.il/ has no link to a document 
which describes typical installation problems and the means of 
overcoming them.
There is an user FAQ at http://user-faq.openoffice.org/, and the 
document http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html addresses font 
related problems.  I didn't check if and how it addresses Hebrew font 
related problems.

                                            --- Omer
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