On Friday 10 November 2006 06:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey All, > > I have X11, but unfortunately I had automatic updates on, and god > knows what it installed. Anyway, my Open Office that worked fine > before now will not open. It get half way on the blue loading bar > and just closes. I am not sure exactly what is wrong so I deleted > the Open Office program, downloaded it again, and reinstalled it. > That did not work, no surprise really. I rebooted, and that also > didn't work. > > Let me knwo if you have any ideas. > > Nate
First, this is an X11 font problem which Apple has acknowledged and will fix soon, we hope. Second, I have copied the text from a previous message which links to the Issue which OpenOffice.org is using to track this problem and a link to the forums at Trinity.NeoOffice.org which describes a very good workaround. Sorry that X11 caused this problem for you. Please be aware that new Mac OS X builds will not have this problem (that is 2.1 or higher) as they will disable the usage of X11 font files. Copied message text: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi all, obviously Apple released a X11 update with corrupt "Vera" Fonts. It is reported, that the FontBook application recognize the font as "...Dont use this fonts" But there is a discussion of a workaround: Bug is reported on OO.org: 71096 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=71096 and the workaround is discussed on the trinity.neooffice.org - list http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=3414 [Workaround text included so you don't have to visit the web site above to find it] The suggested workaround: Open the terminal application and type: sudo mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF.bad <return> enter your password <return> sudo mv /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/Vera*.ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ fonts/TTF.bad <return> the code will create a new folder "TTF.bad" and will copy all "Vera" fonts to this folder. This must be done as a user with [corrected by me] administrator rights (sudo) Hope this helps. thanks to Pavel and Patrick Christopher ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James McKenzie Mac OS X QA/Test Team Lead --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
