On Wed November 8 2006 21:02, + Bill Condon wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *********************** > Good afternoon, > After downloading x11 update from > apple website on my MacBook, which has been running Open Office > succesfully for about 2 months, the > program will not open. Tried trashing the Open Office files and > downloading 2.0 version of Open Office- same problem ! Is there some > conflict somewhere in > the x11 update ? Please help me, I miss my Open Office program. Do I > somehow need to revert to the previous version of x11 ? > > Thank you in advance for any help which you might be able to offer,
As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Thu November 9 2006 03:20, James McKenzie wrote: > > Bill: > > 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 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please reply to [email protected] only. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
