Re: completely hosed OpenOffice 1.0.1
* Boycie (boycie@boycie.net) wrote:
> A similar thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago, after an apt-get
> update. The only package that was updated then was
> msttcorefonts. Assuming the problem to be font related I looked at my
> xfs font paths and there turned out to be a couple of TrueType
> directories with what looked to me like bogus font entries. I removed
> them and restarted x and xfs, worked like a charm.
It looks like this might be it, as I remember something about the
mstcorefonts during an apt-get a while back.
The way fonts are handled in Debian now seems completely changed.
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType only has fonts.dir|scale|alias in it and an
encodings.dir as well. The same is true with a couple other directories
there.
I'd really prefer to get TTF fonts working correctly again, so what is
the best way to set things up? At one time, I think there were symlinks
in that directory which pointed to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/*.ttf files
but now they are not there.
Suggestions on the best way to fix this?
> Hope this helps,
it does indeed.
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