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.
I have a general user account and it runs ok, and I have installed TT fonts for my own use. Your distro version may be set up differently. I'm running the standard OOo download edition. > > 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." True. I downloaded an otf file and spadmin doesn't see it. However, I tried the blunt approach and renamed the font file to .ttf (because the OTF format is supposed to be based on the TTF format), just so spadmin can see it, and OOo appears to be able to work with the glyphs OK, as far as my testing went. This was an arabic font set, and I used "Insert - Special Character" to drop the glyphs into a Writer document. I also tried Roderick's suggestion, and found and installed fontforge:- http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ and used it to convert the otf file to a proper ttf file format. There is also an enhancement request in the system dating from 2003: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=16032 which has been added to regularly it appears. There are other issue reports, presumably from the Windows edition, that describe problems with OTF and PDF exporting and some printing issues. Ross --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
