On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 19:07 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:03:56 +1000
> Ross Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> 
> > As suggested earlier in this thread, use the OOo spadmin app. Maybe you
> > missed it. (Run it as the 'root' user to install fonts to be available
> > to all users on the machine).
> 
> Spadmin will not do the job.
> 
> First, it sees only "Generic Printer," which was installed by Ubuntu as a 
> default. It does not see my Laserjets.
> 
> But, assuming I could figure out how to get past that problem, it cannot see 
> any of the OpenType fonts. I browse to the folder(s) where they are located 
> and it shows no fonts in the folder(s) at all. It just plain does not see 
> them. (They are in /usr/share/fonts/Type1/OpenType and repeated in 
> /home/jjj/.fonts.) Evidently spadmin was created before OpenType became the 
> norm for fonts, and has not been updated since.
> 
> So thanks for the suggestion, but I need something else. 

Also, see the OOo online Help, specifically the Index entry:

fonts;adding under UNIX

Ross


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