Re: OpenOffice in chroot -- fonts?

["Andrew Robinson" <andrew.rw.robinson@gmail.com>]

Tried using xfs. I have more fonts now in open office, and the "Andale
Mono" is now available, but that didn't help

What is interesting, is that the fonts are correct in the actual
contant (in oocalc, the fonts in the cells are fine). It is only the
windowing fonts (menu bar, dialog text, etc.).

I'm wondering if it could be a gnome or kde config issue inside the chroot.

Where do the font settings come from in the chroot (KDE, gnome, xfce)?
Outside of the chroot I am running XFCE with KDE support enabled.

Thanks,
Andrew

On 8/21/06, Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no> wrote:
> Andrew Robinson wrote:
> > I managed to get openoffice to install fine in a ia32 chroot
> > environment (from pages like [1]). It runs okay, but everything is
> > extremely large. The fonts (menu bars, dialogs, etc.) are about 18pt
> > font or so (buttons in the dialogs are huge).
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is a dpi, font or resolution problem. Would
> > appreciate some advice. I'm starting to debate ditching amd64 for i386
> > as much as I'd hate to to avoid all these problems (mplayer & codecs,
> > flash in firefox, openoffice, wine, etc.).
> >
> Use a font server like xfs.  That way, the same fonts will be
> available to 32-bit and 64-bit software.
>
> Alternatively, install your font collection in the chroot too.
>
> Helge Hafting