On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 12:28 +1000, Russell Butler wrote: > Lutz Schweizer wrote: > > Hello, > > I am not sure whether this a bug report or a proposal to improve > > OpenOffice Writer, so I send this to both addresses. > > > > The fonts "Helvetica" and "Times" are present on my computer (which uses > > SuSE Linux Version 10) and can be used in OO Draw, but not in Writer. > > However, I would like to use them for the reason that when I export a > > document to PDF these fonts are not embedded so that the file size is > > much smaller (a fraction only) than when using e.g. Nimbus sans/Nimbus > > Roman (which are admittedly very similar). > > > > I would insert the fonts in my home font directory but I do not see a > > way to do so. (The more desirable way would in my opinion be to make the > > fonts directly available in Writer). I believe I am not the only person > > interested in conversion to "slender" PDF documents. > > > > Many thank s in advance to everybody who might care. > > Lutz Schweizer in Alling near Munich > > Hi Lutz, > > Is this a copy of OOo you have installed or one provided with your distro? > > There should be a utility called spadmin in your ~install/program/ > directory. If you run that as root you should be able to add fonts which > OOo can use. >
I think that if you installed them, they are there. However http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=63585 does address the fact that they disappear. Please vote for the issue. -- 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]
