Bug#218833: [halls@debian.org: Re: openoffice.org: Type 1 fonts do not display correctly on-screen (all programs)]

[Scott Thatcher <thatcher@truman.edu>]

Chris,

Thanks for the fast and informative reply.  I hadn't known that
OpenOffice puts a printer icon next to fonts that it won't display
on-screen.  That explains a lot.  The short version of my reply is that
I wasn't having the problem I thought I was having, but I now have one
lingering issue (see below).

I did some more thinking and realized that what I thought was a problem
was really not a problem.  On my system running Debian stable, there
must have been some aliases set up that mapped Palatino to Palladio, and
the same for the rest of the gsfonts fonts.  On the stable system,
OpenOffice (from the OpenOffice.org tarball) saw those aliases and told
me that all those fonts were available.

On the unstable system with OpenOffice from the Debian package, Palatino
and friends were listed only as printer fonts, but URW Palladio and the
rest did show up under their own names.  So, the fonts weren't really
missing after all.  

Now my lingering problem.  Paladio only shows up in italics in
OpenOffice on my unstable system.  This problem is mirrored in xfontsel,
where Paladio is the only font which _doesn't_ start out in italics
version when you first select its family name.  Other applications like
qtconfig (which I presume uses fontconfig) show Palladio correctly.
Hmm...  I guess I have to shrug my shoulders about that one.  It sure
would be nice to have only one font selection system that was always
predictable.

Scott Thatcher

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Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Truman State University
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