On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:25:54PM -0500, Dan Lewis wrote: >> On Monday May 8 2006 02:21 pm, Berna Massingill wrote: >> > On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 12:58:01PM -0500, Dan Lewis wrote:
[ snip ] >> > >> I use Linux and I have both Arial and Times New Roman in my list >> > >> of available fonts. To get them, File > Wizard > Install fonts from >> > >> the web. A wizard opens with your choice of languages. Select yours >> > >> and follow the instructions. It will download the fonts you want and >> > >> install them. >> > >> > That sounds simple enough, but when I try it, nothing happens -- I >> > follow the sequence of menus, click "Install fonts from the Web", and >> > nothing happens -- no menu pops up, nothing. Am I doing something >> > obviously wrong? I tried another of the wizards, and *it* put up >> > a menu, so apparently it's just the one for fonts that does this? >> > >> > This is OpenOffice 1.9.117 (according to the "About" box -- the >> > splash screen says 2.0), on a Fedora Core 4 system. >> > >> You are using a beta version of 2.0.0. You would be better off >> removing that version and installing the latest (2.0.2). If it came with >> the Fedora Core 4 system, it may have some other problems that the >> download from the OOo web site does not. Well, for suitable definitions of "better off" .... I downloaded something from OpenOffice.org that turned out to be a set of RPMs. When I installed them, I discovered that the single-component executables (oowriter, e.g.) seemed to be gone, with only "soffice" remaining. Okay, minor details; how about the font problem .... I was able to follow your instructions, install everything available, and view the document that started this discussion in a way that's a lot closer to how it appears on a Windows system. Success! But then I noticed that the GNOME toolbar buttons that formerly started various components of the old OpenOffice seemed to have problems; all of them started something I think must be the OpenOffice answer to MS Access. This is a really a minor annoyance, but it made me think that maybe Sun's packaging of OpenOffice was incompatible with other parts of this FC4 system, and maybe I should uninstall and see whether there was a more recent version of OpenOffice available from one of the FC4 sources (via "yum"). Which there was, so I installed that .... What I have now claims to be OpenOffice 2.0, and it has no "install fonts" wizard at all, and since as part of uninstalling the Sun version I removed all those fonts .... Well, clearly I have some clean-up work to do here (and I guess the right thing to do is to remove FC4's version of OpenOffice, in some way that doesn't leave dangling stuff like those GNOME toolbar buttons, and then reinstall Sun's version, and then install fonts again), but -- I'll get there, I think. The FC4-versus-Sun problems/incompatibilities may be a subject for another mailing list (the Fedora Core one). So, a "thank you", and a follow-up (this) for the archives .... -- blm --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
