Berna Massingill wrote:
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 ]
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 ....
I am using the FC4 version of OOo and I don't seem to have any of the
problems you state. I don't have the "latest" version of OOo but the
version I have works well with documents from OOo on Windows or Mac.
I did install an RPM of msttcorefonts that I got off of the web. This
helped drastically in compatibility.
To add fonts in FC4 version of OOo, you have to run spadmin
/usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0/program/spadmin
It doesn't come with an add from web feature but you can select
directories where you have fonts installed.
Another issue that you can run into is the settings for font replacement
between the different versions.
I ran into a similar problem trying to get the documents between the
three different OS's to look the same.
There may also be some changes to the way fonts are displayed and
printed between the different OS's. As my wife says, the times font
display on the mac is different than on FC4.
Also, the last time I installed from OOo site, there was a sub directory
of RPM's that had the desktop icons after unzipping. I think there was
a redhat or gnome rpm in there that installed the menu and desktop icons.
--
Robin Laing
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