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.
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