John Jason, what else do you have installed under Open Office in Synaptic ? I have both openoffice.org-gnome and openoffice.org-gtk (versions 2.2.0-1ubuntu3) installed and have neither the problem with strange fonts nor an inability to produce Unicode glyphs that you describe. Thus I find it hard to believe that openoffice.org-gtk is the key here ; my suspicion is that you have something else installed that in combination with the above gives rise to this difficulty. But you insist that you've not installed any new packages, and that everything was working fine until a few days ago ! A real mystery ! But mayhap this letter that Klaas Visser sent regarding the (same ?) problem you had earlier might help you to clear it up now - it seemed to work then !
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:20:41 +1100 Klaas Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> Could someone please tell me, when I get into Tools > Options, which > item it is, and bear in mind that I have to count this way and that to > tell which item I am checking. The check boxes work, at least. But the > buttons on the bottom are also unreadable. One of them is Help, but I > can't remember which one is the "OK" button.
Okay, looking at the Options dialog box - specifically the list on the
left.
Expand the very first item (OpenOffice.org) Fourth item down is View - select this one Top left hand corner of the right hand pane should show you Scaling with a percent dropdown box, and underneath that two dropdown boxes for icon sizes, and these may be displaying "Automatic". Directly under that is the checkbox for using system fonts. The OK button is the one on the very left of the four buttons along the bottom right hand side.
Yay! I'm all fixed. Thanks a million for the guide! Henri
2007/5/24, John Jason Jordan < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, 24 May 2007 07:45:55 -0700 > John Jason Jordan < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > > > On Thu, 24 May 2007 12:00:18 +0200 > > Hagar de l'Est < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > > > > > This is an old bug, see here : > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=48666 > > > A shame it's available in all applications (under Linux) except OOo > ! > > > > Thanks, but I don't think it is a bug. I think the problem is that I > > changed some setting in Tools > Options (or elsewhere) that > > inadvertently turned it off. > > <OOo 2.2 on Ubuntu Feisty amd64> > > OK, I'm making progress here. I decided to do a reinstall. So I opened > Synaptic and started by searching on openoffice. In the results I > noticed that openoffice.org-gnome and openoffice.og-gtk were not > installed. I marked -gnome for installation, which automatically > selected -gtk as well, since -gnome depends on -gtk. > > After installing those two I opened Writer and the Ctrl+Shft+u for > inserting Unicode characters was working again! Yay! However, all the > menu items were in a strange symbol font. Everything was unreadable. I > could guess how to get to Tools > Options, but when the dialog box > popped up it was also in the strange symbol font. I've seen this before > -- back in the days of Edgy and 2.04 when I attempted to install 2.2 > from the OOo files instead of via Synaptic. I think it is possible to > fix it, but I can't remember how I did it. I remember that after I > fixed it everything was still pretty messed up -- font sizes in > documents were wrong, zoom levels were wrong, etc. I also remember > seeing posts here about strange symbol fonts in the menu but I ignored > them because I just uninstalled 2.2 and went back to 2.04 under Edgy. > > Anyway, I rebooted the computer just on general principles. When it > came back up I launched OOo Writer. The strange symbol fonts were gone > and normal fonts were back. But Ctrl+Shift+u no longer worked.:(:( > > Subsequently I uninstalled both openoffice.org-gtk and -gnome and then > reinstalled just -gtk. The strange symbol font was back and Ctrl-Shift > +u was working again. > > So apparently the problem is related the openoffice.org-gtk. However, > to refresh other information from previously in this thread, Ctrl+Shift > +u was working fine and I had no problems at all with OOo until just > the other day when Ctrl+Shift+u stopped working. I did not install or > uninstall any new packages. All I did was edit my user dictionary, and > I'm not even sure that had anything to do with it. > > Does anyone remember anything about the strange symbol fonts, -gtk, > -gnome, and related issues?
