Ross Johnson wrote:
> Andy Pepperdine wrote:
>
>>On Wednesday 08 November 2006 08:38, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>>
>>
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/lib/openoffice/program$ spadmin
>>>bash: spadmin: command not found
>>>
>>>
>>
>>So the current directory is not in $PATH. You can start it with
>> ./spadmin
>>and IIRC, spadmin has to be run as root.
>>
>>
> Run it as root to install printers and fonts that you want available to
> all users, but users can also run spadmin whence (haven't used that word
> in a while) it will install fonts, and I assume printers also, in the
> users private openoffice.org area.
>
> By the way:
> If JJJ isn't using spadmin then I assume he's dropping fonts into the
> openoffice.org fonts directory directly (either the directory fonts area
> or his private fonts directory). This appears to work fine so far as
> I've found.
>
> So I also tried dropping an OpenType font in there as well bypassing
> spadmin, and it appears to work fine as well. Yet, as has been widely
> noted, spadmin can't handle OpenType fonts, and so if the only
> impediment to OTF with OOo on Linux is that spadmin doesn't see the file
> extension, then that's should be very easily fixed in the code. I think
> I looked at the code once and saw that "otf" wasn't in the list of
> recognised extensions. At the time I assumed that this was for a reason,
> e.g. that other parts of OOo don't handle OTF. But maybe OOo on Linux
> handles OTF fine, and it's simply spadmin that doesn't recognisethem.
>
> Just thought I'd mention that.
>
> Ross
In 2.0.4, if installed from the OOo site files (Ubuntu Dapper 6.061 LTS)
the openoffice.org-debian-menus_2.0.4-2_all.deb file will install it in
the Applications|Office menu under:
Openoffice.org Printer Administration.
[Note: I installed using OOo_2.0.4_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz and
converted the RPMS files to deb w/Alien.]
For JJ to run spadmin from the terminal he simply needs to change to the
program directory where OOo is installed - not the lib/bin files; on
Dapper it is in the "opt" directory:
Code (JJ copy & past the following in a terminal)
cd /opt/openoffice.org2.0/program
./spadmin
Or, you can open nautilus, browse:
File System|opt|openoffice.org2.0|program
doubleclick on spadmin
at the prompt click "Run"
There should be no need to run ./spadmin as root in Ubuntu Dapper
6.06LTS unless OOo has been incorrectly installed. If it has just run:
sudo ./spadmin instead.
Hint for nautilus & fonts; from a terminal run: "sudu nautilus" this
will put you in the user root mode so that you can copy your fonts from
the temp/download directory into the /usr/share/fonts/xyz directory, or
your home/username/.openoffice.org2/user/fonts directory, which is where
./spadmin puts them anyway.
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