On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 14:50 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:38:57 +0200 > Guido Pinkernell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > > > > > Are you using cups? See [1]. Anyway, setting up printer with spadmin > > > > is something different than installing fonts with spadmin. To get past > > > > the problem with "Generic Printer" (which is not necessary for > > > > installing fonts), in spadmin you create a PDF-Printer, say, and then > > > > add the command line you normally use to access your printer. In KDE I > > > > simply add "kprinter". > > > > > > Unless I've totally missed something, to get OOo applications to see the > > > fonts (i.e. in the font selection drop list etc) you need to install > > > them using spadmin. Maybe you can just drop them into the appropriate > > > directory, but I've always assumed that spadmin may do more than just > > > that. I also assume this means that the OOo printing component can then > > > also use them, > > > > That's probably the case, however, John implied that one needs to set up a > > different printer than the "generic" to be able to install fonts with > > spadmin. Which isn't the case. I might have misunderstood or overread > > something, though. I didn't follow the whole thread. > > Look, I've tried spadmin. As root. In fact, you can't run it unless you run > it as root. > > The problem is spadmin CANNOT SEE OPENTYPE FONTS. I browse to the folder and > it thinks the folder is empty. I add a TrueType to the folder and then it > sees that font. But it does not see a font file with the .otf extension as a > "font file." > > Therefore I cannot install OpenType fonts for OO.o with spadmin. > > The fonts are correctly installed in the system. Most other apps can see and > use them just fine. > > Any other way to get OO.o to see my OpenType fonts? >
I think consensus is that you convert them to tt. Google for tools. -- 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]
