Re: emergency: Openoffice, Fonts, what a mess
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 03:36, Kevin Mark wrote:
03:36? This didn't reach me before 04:30...
> This is the kind of things that hurt Linux for the desktop. When average users, trying to
> get 'WORK' done, do a 'routine' upgrade and have a wrench thrown into a seemingly simple
Not that simple. Some physics paper with lots of greek letters and
embedded graphis and functions and whatnot.
Admittedly, I didn't belive that Openoffice was a good means to get it
done in the first place. But I don't know any better means, either.
> My idea is to downgrade OO. And
Won't this possibly break even more? I lack knowledge of apt-pinning &c,
and there's no time for learning now. My only means would be to replace
the current sources.list entry with one that provides v1.0 -- risky or
OK?
> hopefully this will 'pull-in' the fonts that were messed up. Also, print
> the files to 'pdf' first.
Output to PDF is an OO 1.1 feature.Though this may be necessary either
way: my postscript printer messes up some of the greek and symbol
characters. So she may need to provide a pdf file as well:
"Look, this is what I've done, but I couldn't get it printed properly"
> affected by 'upgrades'. I'd also check /var/cache/apt/archives for any
> xfonts that are not installed. I think you can use dpkg --get-selections
> to see what is missing.
huh? I don't even understand what this means.
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