Re: Sid & Openoffice (user interface font not working)

[marshal@h9.dion.ne.jp]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Halls <chris.halls@gmx.de> writes:

    > Hi Michael!
    > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:09:34PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
    >> I just upgraded my testing machine to unstable and installed
    >> KDE3.0.3.  All worked well except that openoffice no longer
    >> shows a single character. That is there is no longer any
    >> character in the menues, windows, etc.
    >> 
    >> Did anyone else have such an effect? Yes, I know this is
    >> pre-unstable, but it better does not happen once the packages
    >> come up to sid. :-)

    > Yours is the third such report I've seen today - something
    > must've gone wrong with fonts somewhere.  The person I spoke on
    > on IRC found that he could get it to work by removing fonts from
    > the font path until it started, then changing the user interface
    > font a la README.gz.  That makes OOo use the font you ask for
    > instead of automatically looking for a font... and finding one
    > that doesn't work properly.

    > It would be good to find out which font is being picked on these
    > problem machines.  I can't reproduce it here.

Here's a bug report on the problem.

http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2612

In summary, it seems that if you don't use freetype for X, it'll work,
but then you don't get true type fonts...

Good Luck

Marshal