Re: truetype installation help

[Chris Halls <halls@debian.org>]

On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 04:18, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 19:24, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> > Thanks for the hint! Can you believe it took me the WHOLE DAY to figure
> > this out: 'dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig'?

Johannes, why did you need that explicitly?

> 
> Yes.  Debian is *big*, and obscure stuff that non-Developers
> don't have a regular occasion to use aren't well documented.

Yup, although I thought the fontconfig integration was documented for
OOo in the README.Debian.

        Missing fonts on upgrade to 1.1.0
        ---------------------------------
        As part of the integration of Ximian's work, openoffice now uses
        fontconfig to determine the installed fonts on your system. 
        Fonts that were installed using the 'spadmin' tool in a
        non-standard directory are no longer supported.  You should move
        those fonts to a directory that fontconfig knows about, such as
        ~/.fonts or /usr/local/share/fonts.   The same applies if you
        made use of special paths with SAL_FONTPATH_PRIVATE.
        

Johannes, did you see this at all?  Did you look at README.Debian?  I'm
wondering how we can improve this for others trying to do the same
thing.  I wonder if you missed this because it talks about upgrading to
1.1.0.

Judging by the number of confused people we're getting, it might help to
split this into two sections - one that talks about getting fonts to
work with OOo & fontconfig, and the other that mentions missing fonts on
upgrade.  Here's a draft, what do you think?


Adding extra fonts
------------------
As part of the integration of Ximian's work, Debian openoffice uses
fontconfig to find the installed fonts on your system.

You should make sure that fontconfig knows about your fonts.  Use
'fc-list | sort' to get a list of all fonts known to fontconfig.  If
they are not available via fontconfig, OOo will not see them either and
you need to check your fontconfig configuration first.

Missing fonts on upgrade to 1.1.0
---------------------------------
Fonts that were installed using the 'spadmin' tool in a non-standard
directory are no longer supported.  You should move those fonts to a
directory that fontconfig knows about, such as ~/.fonts or
/usr/local/share/fonts.   The same applies if you made use of special
paths with SAL_FONTPATH_PRIVATE.  See the section 'Adding extra fonts' 
for more information.



Chris