W. Wayne Liauh wrote: >> This may be a Sun-specific problem, but... >> >> Now that I'm running OpenSolaris on my Ultra 20 >> desktop instead of SXDE >> on my SunBlade 2500, I'm using OpenOffice instead of >> StarOffice. >> >> Unfortunately, many fonts display differently. In >> particular, fonts >> used widely in Sun presentations, such as Arial >> Narrow. This causes >> presentation text to no longer fit on the slide. Has >> anyone figured >> out how to get these fonts to display the same way >> they do in StarOffice? >> >> (BTW, the same thing has happened for years on my >> Linux system. In an >> act of desperation, I even installed StarOffice on my >> Linux machine, >> but that didn't solve the problem. Possibly it's an >> Xorg vs. Xsun >> issue, although other people claim that installing >> StarOffice fixes the >> problem for them.) >> _______________________________________________ >> opensolaris-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] > > You may want to try to copy your fonts from SXDE to 2008.05 to see if this > solves your problem. Plse note that due to licensing limitations, you may > not be able to use some of those fonts other than for testing purposes.
Would installing the SUNWxwcft package from SXDE be sufficient? _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
