For the first problem of Open Office.Org (OOo) dieing on boot: I suspect that OOo crashed at some point, on restarting OOo it is trying to "restore" the file(s) that were open when it crashed and the file is corrupted and OOo is crashing (it shouldn't but this is a common problem with M$ Office as well). Assuming you can see some things in dialogs check out: Tools | Options | OOo | Paths | Backup for the location of the backups. Key sequence: Alt+t,o,Ctrl+home,+, down arrow 7 times, tab, down arrow 3 times, Alt+e) The default location for the backup folder is ~/.openoffice/user/backup
If this folder is empty I am wrong and ignore this, if it isn't empty move the file(s) to somewhere else and see if this solves the problem. For the second problem of not having text in your menus: I haven't had this particular problem but try turning off the font replacement table: Tools | Options | OOo | Font Replacement | uncheck Font replacement table Key sequence: Alt+t,o,Ctrl+home,+, down arrow 9 times, Alt+a, Enter No guarantee that I'm on track but trying these shouldn't take long. Let us know how you get on. On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 17:30, cha93 wrote: > 2 Openoffice problems. > > First and this has been happening since soon after I installed Mandrake 9.0 > ,It worked prefectly the frst few times, is that when ever the program is > loaded it loads up so you see the doc and every thing then simply dies before > you can do any thing. If it's loaded again with in the next 30-40secs it loads > perfectly (except for the problem listed below) and you can start working. > The Second is that all the text from the menu's has disappeared leaving a > single black line in place of the text any help would be nice thanks. Im using > Freetype 2.1.3 with MS fonts imported using Mandrakes Fontdrak, A very nice > little util,All other Apps work perfectly and I've had no other font problems. > > C Harland -- Ian Laurenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
