On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 16:09 +0200, John Doe wrote: > Hello List, > > desperately seeking help. Reposting this request i put > on the forum yesterday without any reply. > > i try to do an overall distribution and OpenOffice > upgrade from an older Debian Sarge (unstable, back > then) , kde 3.1 and Openoffice 1.1.1 to the recent > Ubuntu, which comes with KDE 3.4, and OpenOffice > 1.1.3. This would apply to several workstations in the > office. I did the upgrade on one machine and it turned > out that the main problem now is that the fonts appear > totally different. In detail, this only applies to > OpenOffice , and the font used troughout the template > docs in this office is Nimbus Sans L. This font looks > sort of "condensed" now and also prints out the wrong > way. Other applications dont seem to have this > problem. I have checked one million settings within > KDE and compared to the older machines but couldnt > really single out anything that could cause the > problem. I have tried to figure out the actual font > files and replaced them with those of the old > installation but it did not help. Let me add that i am > not exactly an expert > when it comes to X11 font management, left alone KDE, > debian and OpenOffice on top. > > Each and every help greatly appreciated. I do realize > that it would be better if i understood the bits and > tricks around X11 fonts and i will certainly look into > it in greater detail once this is solved but for now i > would really be glad if any font expert could give me > a helping hand. The guy on the testing machine cannot > work right now...
I suggest you try installing fonts using File > AutoPilot > Install fonts from the web IIRC, the Nimbus font is part of the Misc. collection. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
