Re: help with fonts / openoffice
Matt,
You are facing 3 problems:
1. M$ quit offering the "corefonts" on their typography site a few
weeks ago, hence the "404" error. These fonts are still available
elsewhere, but the Woody msttcorefonts package still points towards the
M$ site for automatic download. The solution is to grab the
msttcorefonts package from eithe "testing" or "unstable" and use that.
It has a corrected d/l site.
2. Getting the TrueType fonts recognized by your system. This is
beyond the scope of what I can do in a short message, but scanning this
list or going to the HOWTO at the Linux Documentation Project will get
you started. You don't absolutely HAVE to do this to get to your
end-point, but it will make these fonts available to the rest of your
apps as well as OO. There is also some good info in your KDE install
about "anti-aliasing HOWTO" in /usr/doc/, but this seems a bit dated on
my install....
3. Getting OO to recognize these new fonts. The solution here is to do
#1, then fire up OO as root and select the pPrinter Administration
function. Along the bottom you will see a button labled "Fonts". This
will bring up a screen where you can add system fonts. You will have to
"browse" the system to find where they are stored, but /usr/share/fonts/
is a good place to start. My experience had been that you will only be
able to install type1 and truetype fonts. You might also want to look
in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts. Experiment...
Cheers,
-Don Spoon-
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