On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 20:52, Dimitris Ioannou wrote:
> If you insist on keeping OpenOffice, that's OK, but
> > if
> > you want to give SO 6 another try,I have and I can
> > send it to you, a small batch file that you put it
> > one
> > level up from the dir where you have new fonts to be
> > installed in X and executes the mkfontdir and assign
> > commands automatically, also it creates a
> > fonts.dir.txt file that the Xfont server can use to
> > assign the fonts to itself. Using this and following
> > the method I pointed previously you can get SO6 to
> > run
> > without no problems and with Winfonts installed and
> > working perfectly well. I can assure it's not buggy
> > at
> > all. I have given it very hard times writing my
> > wife's
> > documents(she's a journalist) and faced no problem
> > at
> > all, {I had to transform them later in M$Word
> > format,
> > put graphics in it, many pages,etc...}, so trust me
> > it's worth it. After getting it to work its rock
> > solid
> > and stable as no other. If you want details on how
> > to
> > I'm always available.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Dimitris
> >
OK Dimitris, why not? While I'm happy with the way OpenOffice is
working and I like the philosophy behind using an open source solution,
I guess it would be nice to have SO6 as a working option rather than
not. If you would like to send me the shell script I would be happy to
give it a try.
thanks
Brian
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